• Two aiders and a rat's nest of other equipment hanging off my harness made getting through the trees to the ground the crux of the day.

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  • The crash caused an "earth-shattering rumble, " sparking a "huge fireball" and sending piece of the jet hurtling into the neighborhood, said Yelinek, who estimates he was about 100 yards from where the jet made its initial contact with the trees.

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  • " Mr. Kiarostami then made "Through the Olive Trees" ("Zir-e darakhatan zeyton, " 1994), a love story based on a scene in "Life and Nothing More .

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  • By the time help made it to the scene, past downed trees and power lines, a 2-year-old boy was already dead, said Larry Ragonese, a spokesman for the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.

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  • When Taxol, for example, emerged 20 years ago, you would have thought from all the breathless articles that cancer would be cured forever if we could just grow enough of the yew trees from which the drug was made.

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  • Stefansson sought the predisposing genes among Icelandic patients because their richly documented family trees and homogeneous genetic inheritance made the task as easy as looking for a needle in a box of needles.

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  • The blocks themselves, made from the fine-grained wood of pear or jujube trees, are cut to a thickness of two centimetres and polished with sandpaper to prepare them for engraving.

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  • Early in the design process, Arad was teamed with the landscape architect Peter Walker, who shares his minimalist sensibility, and they have made the space around the two footprints a handsome and restrained civic square, with oak trees, benches, and light poles giving the place a kind of quiet, firm order.

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  • The first artificial Christmas trees were made in Germany using goose feathers that were dyed green.

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  • The Alrewas site acknowledges "the personal sacrifices made by the armed and civil services of this country" and houses about 50, 000 trees and more than 240 memorials.

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  • The flow of the river, made constant by careful management to please consumers, did not suit the handsome river red gum trees along its banks, which thrive on drought and flood.

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  • If Milroy is half as successful in green technology as he was in telecom, the world will be using chemicals made from willow trees before too long.

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  • Finding a similar place in the trees as Woods, the Swede made a mess of his recovery and eventually three-putted for a quadruple-bogey eight to take him back to one-under 71.

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  • Make a reservation and the Ma(i)sonry team will set you up under the olive trees out back with wines made by artisan-luminaries like Thomas Rivers Brown, perhaps, or Heidi Barrett or Tor Kenward.

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  • We made the journey in three 4x4 Unicef vehicles bumping along the red dirt roads through the lush green tropical landscape - trees packed with bananas, oranges and lemons.

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  • Fiordland's forests are predominantly made up of beech trees, whose tiny, regular leaves dot the canopy with small, delicate brushstrokes.

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  • The trees were still bare of leaves and my mother made Caro wear her coat in the mornings, but she came home after school dragging it behind her.

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  • Research showed that Taxol can be made by fermenting the fungus in vats, but so far harvesting it from trees remains more cost effective.

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  • Often the piece looks rustic rather than polished, says Mr. Smith, who favors tables made of a local material, such as wood from trees indigenous to the area.

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  • We can take them to court if necessary, but my understanding is the owners wish to replant these trees and they realise they have made a mistake.

    BBC: Bernard Matthews told to re-plant trees felled at farm

  • And the digitisation of billions of human records and ubiquitous web access has made researching family trees a lot easier and more accessible.

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  • De Poli made an arrangement with nearby coconut planters to supply him with a few trees for the kitchen each week.

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  • Balancing against the weight behind him, which made driving along the rutted canal road difficult, Nawab pushed on, under the rosewood trees.

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  • To survive, Mr Hanson is slowly building up a herd of bison on his property, has put up tourist cabins made from his own pine trees, and hopes to attract visitors who can be taken on photo shoots through the scenic Badlands.

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  • "Clearly the definitive abandonment of dependence on trees... has to count as one of the most radical shifts in adaptive zone ever made by any vertebrate since the very first tetrapod heaved itself out of water and on to terra firma, " he said.

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