Consequently, over the past week, inhabitants of villages and parts of London under the Heathrow flight path could hear the birds singing on these beautiful spring days, not obscured by the cacophony of planes overhead.
The vegetarian program expanded to four days a week last spring but reverted back to three days when the U.S. Department of Agriculture changed its requirements for protein per serving in the fall, he said.
And it was on one of those days that spring, on a trip to a farm in Chantilly, VA, that Frank Christopher took the photograph.
The ride can be wrenching, but "The First Days Of Spring" is a lot like a flu shot for heartsickness: It injects enough poison to leave listeners feeling immune.
Mixing the slow-burning grace of The National with the open-hearted warmth of Adem, "The First Days of Spring" spends nearly seven minutes seething and building and exploding.
Most managers ease their returning players back into the lineup, rest them when their teams have long road trips and then treat them as normal during the final days of spring training.
On the pitching side, fourth starter Hughes is likely to miss the first days of spring, meaning David Phelps and Ivan Nova should slide into the fourth and fifth spots in the rotation, postponing their battle over the final rotation spot, for the time being.
The newly-announced strikes will see staff walk out for a total of 20 days, covering spring bank holiday and school half-term holidays.
And the map-ping of the genome let scientists decode the genetic blueprint of new viruses like SARS, the virus that swept China in the spring, in a few days.
Cashman said he still expects to add a piece or two from other teams' castoffs in the final week, making a cloudy picture even murkier in spring training's final days.
On brew days in the spring and fall, the shack's windows are swung open, unfermented beer is pumped into the tub, left to cool overnight in the breeze and poured into barrels the following morning.
This event also coincides with the first anniversary of the early days of the Arab Spring.
The Rockies have monitored Tulowitzki's workload since spring training, giving him spot days off to prevent a recurrence of his leg injuries.
Those looking to tinker with humanoid robots aren't exactly lacking for options these days, but Cognitive Spring is taking a slightly different approach than most with its Arduino-based cSpring bipedal robot -- one of the semifinalists in the Insert Coin competition here at Expand.
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Pitchers and catchers report to spring training in a few scant days and even those of us laboring under blizzard conditions and unyielding cold gray skies that seem to stretch forever (yes, I live in New York) can glimpse the warmth of sunnier days to come.
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When the road is fully constructed in spring of 2012, the first 10 days of the trip will be cut to a two-day dusty drive.
The yellow tulips in the back are contrasted with the rows of tulips that have yet to bloom, highlighting a long-awaited yet faithful spring that fulfills its promise of longer days.
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Nearly four million school days in England were missed last spring and autumn because parents took children out of school to go on holiday.
As the days lengthen with the approach of spring, the northernmost reaches of Scandinavia are about to witness the annual migration of huge herds of reindeer.
The Cold Spring Harbor district used its built-in snow days after Superstorm Sandy hit the region Oct. 29, she said.
So for those of us with dim memories of those far-off days, the harrowing early returns of spring training have a familiar ring.
First-year coach Scott Shafer, a quarterback in his playing days, is splitting the reps in spring ball between Loeb, John Kinder and Terrel Hunt, a 6-3, 215-pound junior who has played in only one game for the Orange.
It was a standard practice with drill work and finished with short-yardage scrimmages as the days wind down before Saturday's annual spring game.
Although the seasonal equinoxes and solstices seem to divide the year into four equal parts, when you count the days of what we officially call winter, spring, summer and fall, each season is different, says Bing Quock, acting chairman of the Morrison Planetarium at the California Academy of Sciences.
Second baseman Daniel Murphy strained an intercostal this spring and was initially given a timetable of seven to 10 days.
He had an injection, will travel back to the team's spring training complex on Friday and rest for at least two days.
Of those 231 days, 21% will occur in Florida during spring training.
Bush reminded Congress, which is on spring recess until April 16, that it has been 57 days since he first requested war funds.
In a series of videos on the Web site of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, he discussed his role in the early days of DNA sequencing.
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Many people also recognize that their moods and energies mutate with the seasons, with the most typical pattern being increased well-being and energy in spring and summer and more tiredness and depression during the gray days of winter.
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