• He cites Harvard University's glass-flower collection at its Museum of Natural History as an inexhaustible cache of ideas, for form, content and sheer brazen originality.

    WSJ: Porcelain Flowers Never Die

  • Colombia's export-crazy flower growers, who today draw more notice than its once-dominant coffee growers, have benefited from President Uribe's security measures.

    FORBES: International

  • Some 3, 000 people initially gathered outside the building in the Djebel Jelloud suburb of Tunis where Mr Belaid's flower-covered coffin lay.

    BBC: Tunisia mourns murdered politician Chokri Belaid

  • At the court's periphery, the flower-topped columns and golden glass lanterns of Louis Comfort Tiffany's garden loggia at Laurelton Hall evoke a lost world of decorative magnificence and sumptuous style.

    WSJ: The Metropolitan Museum of Art | American Wing | The New World Reborn | By Ada Louise Huxtable

  • Throughout the stadium's aisles a trampish flower seller -- a traditional figure of carnivals -- was chased by a posse of Swiss guards.

    CNN: 'Magnificent' Games sent off in style

  • Their bulging, compound, lidless eyes zero in on the exterior signs that point to a flower's interior nectar--spots, dots and stripes.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The group's inventions include a simple flower that emerges from its flowerpot only when a user's long-distance partner comes online.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The U.S. has yet to see this technology flower--it has plenty of cell phones but most are comparatively backward.

    FORBES: The Web Phone Evangelist

  • In Prospect Park alone, at least 90 species of native bees flit from flower to flower among the park's sun-dappled golden rod, dandelions and dogwood.

    WSJ: New Sweat Bee Generates Buzz

  • "One of Strauss's biggest tasks, along with stand-in with coach Andy Flower, is to unify the dressing room, " he said.

    BBC: England have no direction - Gooch

  • But the endless meadows filled with a purple-blue ocean of lupine, or the sunset orange-red of the Indian paintbrush (Wyoming's state flower) will leave you speechless.

    CNN: 7 stunning U.S. spots for wildlife

  • "They're living walls, and they come in all sorts of colors, not just green, " Richard Sabin of BioTecture told CNN, and whose walls have been incorporated in Gold and Silver Gilt medal-winning gardens at the Royal Horticultural Society's Chelsea Flower Show, London.

    CNN: Green walls: the growing success of 'vegitecture'

  • This is a huge competitive advantage for a new entrant, who can benefit from such things as the sophisticated Dutch flower auctions, the flower-growers' associations and the country's advanced research centres.

    ECONOMIST: Idea: Clustering | The

  • Although England lost the Test series 1-0 they then won their first one-day series win in the Caribbean and Flower's good relationship with Strauss has helped to make him the leading candidate for the permanent role.

    BBC: Strauss seeks new coach decision

  • And Zimbabwe's Grant Flower was fined for shouting obscenities to the crowd in the third limited-overs international in Harare.

    BBC: Shoaib handed ban

  • Coach Andy Flower has suggested changes could be made to England's batting line-up for The Oval following the abject, series-levelling defeat inside three days in the fourth Test.

    BBC: Key 'dreaming' of Ashes call-up

  • In the days before sit-ins, flower power and bra burning were popular in the U.S., Roth capitalized on the subversive appeal to kids of bleeding eyes and drooling rodents.

    FORBES: Rat Fink Renaissance

  • They want to talk about their choices, and they feel very strongly - and I'll be in the flower aisle at High Noon's grocery store and two employees will be going at it because they disagree about who they're going to vote for in the primary.

    NPR: In Ohio, Delegates May Hinge on Job Issues

  • Last year and earlier this year, the world's biggest and smelliest flower, the Amorphophallus titanum, attracted hundreds of visitors when it bloomed - a very rare event.

    BBC: Kew is newest 'world wonder'

  • Margin Deterioration: Generally, a flower shop's payroll should eat up 30% of sales, and the cost-of-goods-sold another 30%-33%.

    FORBES: What You're Worth

  • Perfectly manicured grounds with flower-lined pathways lead to a cavernous tasting room that is attached to the winery's processing and fermentation rooms.

    BBC: Touring wineries in Texas Hill Country

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