He picked up a rotting banana skin and hung it on the leaves of a neem tree that grew near the gate of the house, so that it would startle the owners when they came out.

NEWYORKER: The Elephant

Company officials said a redesign bringing the height beneath the tree line would cost millions of dollars.

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If they were branches of a tree weighed down with snow, they would be torn from the trunk in the first breeze.

ECONOMIST: AN ENGINEERING MYSTERY

After sifting through his mail while eating a late lunch, Hull would sit under a shade tree on the front lawn of the Smith County Courthouse and talk with the checkers players.

CNN: Excerpt: 'The Prince of Tennessee: The Rise of Al Gore'

The 54-year-old dedicated the award to her family and joked that it would have pride of place at the top of her Christmas tree.

BBC: Kate Bush awarded CBE by the Queen at Windsor Castle

"If it is true that the mechanism is all about rays enhancing diffuse radiation, it would mean that 'global dimming' and 'global brightening' would have a big effect on tree growth and therefore on the absorption of carbon dioxide, " warns Ms Dengel.

BBC: Earth News - Cosmic pattern to UK tree growth

No one would ever guess that Luka and Jovo, from the branches of the tree up which they had scrambled, had watched the tiger reel back in surprise and look around, puzzled.

NEWYORKER: The Tiger��s Wife

Myriad has no more right to patent these parts of the naturally occurring code in the human genome than it would to patent an apple, or a branch off of a tree that could be used to hit a ball or scratch your back, Ravicher says.

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