For most of the 40, 000 people working on this tree-lined campus - and yes, it does feel like a university - are engineers with a degree or often a Master's.

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Working out the legal definition of a tree in the Kyoto Protocol took years.

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The agency said Nant y Bryn brook in the Crychan forest was polluted during a "tree thinning operation" and contractors working for the commission were responsible.

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In a forthcoming issue of Tree Physiology, Paul Schaberg, a researcher working for the United States Department of Agriculture in Vermont, and his colleagues, will report the results of their experiments with sugar maples.

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While other beers use hops trucked in from time zones away, Moonlight's Working for Tips thinks local: Its redwood twigs come from a tree in the brewery's front yard.

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Where we once used the same baubles and tree lights year in and year out which inevitably stopped working as soon as they were taken out of storage we now theme trees to suit our moods or to follow fashions, taking a page from store window displays like Ms. McCartney's and decked-out hotel foyers.

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As James Cameron, working in 3-D, thrusts us into the picture frame, brushing past tree branches, coursing alongside foaming-jawed creatures, we may be overcome by an uncanny sense of emerging, becoming, transcending a sustained mood of elation produced by vaulting into space.

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The company is working on restarting them, and he said the focus right now is making line and tree crews available to towns that have requested them.

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