This Christmas, they are planning an elaborate tree made of weeping-willow branches.
The authorities blame unexpected storms, tree branches falling on high-voltage power lines (as in the Italian example) and other acts of nature.
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As The Asahi Shimbun reports, that system isn't the best for producing deep bass (making them less than ideal for music), but it apparently fares considerably better with the medium and high-pitched sounds of birds and rustling tree branches.
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To substitute for fossils, and thus reconstruct the ancient branches of the tree as well as the modern-day leaves, Dr Dunn used mathematically informed guesswork.
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As I was driving back from Westchester Airport on Wednesday, October 31, post-Sandy, dodging huge branches and driving by upended tree stumps taller than my super fun, super cute, super tiny Fiat 500c, affectionately known as Luigi, I envied my brother David his 4-door Jeep Wrangler Unlimited and its trail-rated, go-anywhere capabilities.
The ground was soft and swampy, fallen tree branches lay over the paths, I heard the obsessive self-hypnotizing cicadas, the gulp of the bullfrogs, and knew with an animal sense only lately developed in me that there were some four-footed creatures about.
When Hurricane Katrina's mighty winds and waters slammed into the Big Easy last August, Ashe jumped off a third-floor balcony of her elegant home into a tree and clung to its swaying branches.
"The orthograde single and two-footed leaps are likely useful during feeding and crossing short distances between branches of the same tree, " explains Mr Channon.
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