Hints and tips:
...Cities along dried-out parts of the river, including Chongqing and Wuhan, have fired metal canisters into the air to seed clouds and induce condensation....
...They have the potential to seed residential life in corporate bastions like Midtown Manhattan. The example that Chakrabarti and others point to is Lower Manhattan....
...There is no hotel signage, no lobby, no televisions and air-conditioning in only eight of the rooms....
...The automated process goes roughly like this: after a seed is spit into a tiny cup by an Italian-made dispenser, its first stop is an ultra-humid germination room....
...A few nights ago I slept with the air-conditioning off, and the windows open....
...The National Physical Laboratory, a government body, has provided £50,000 in seed funding....
...The seeds of a friendship were planted....
...Take, for example, Philip Kingsley’s Elasti-Styler, designed for priming, conditioning, strengthening, taming and shine-boosting....
...There was air-conditioning, and my brother and I didn’t have to share a room, but the routine, perfected over so many summers, remained exactly the same....
...But Lisa Hooker, head of consumer markets at PwC, said it was “unlikely that customers will see wall-to-wall sales”, adding that retailers cleared stock online throughout May....
...In the middle, a tightly packed glistening jelly-ball of seeds manages to hold its form despite the cut....
...For starters, the Bank could adopt a more flexible monetary policy in terms of combining small in size Bank rate hikes with reductions in QE without conditioning the latter on the policy rate reaching 0.5...
...The dusty and faded nylon blooms occupying hearths that once offered living warmth planted a seed in her mind....
...On Twitter she urged people to “go out and start up everything: go and start your washing machine, ironing, vacuum cleaning, air-conditioning, whatever”, to “send a clear message to those out there” that...
...Since 1976, an international convention, which Kew supports, forbids the propagation and sale of any plant raised from seed or material collected under licence in a foreign country....
...Kemp was invited to be part of a Barclays TechStars accelerator programme, which provided seed funding for Everledger....
...Had planned to make the pick-up the night before but the air conditioning in the cab died. Had to install a new compressor which took time. 12:30pm Deliver coils to customer in Brownstown, Indiana....
...Musical seeds are planted and tended to through improvisation, and the ecosystem of sound that emerges grows beyond any single contribution....
...Air conditioning must be set up to keep the temperature steady for all four seasons. Even then, there are changes in humidity....
...From the Zen Den offering private Tai Chi lessons, reflexology and chia-seed muesli bowls deep in the forest, to the sleek hilltop infinity pool where DJs play house music from 11am, the island’s atmosphere...
...The rest hung heavy with green leaves and white seeds. It took me a while to notice a land hermit crab at my elbow, bunched inside its stolen shell, watching us from the top of a coconut....
...And then in the best case, if it does something like Green Revolution, where new seeds get invented, then government money comes along, really scales that stuff up....
...Kew runs the Millennium Seed Bank, an international effort to preserve the seeds of as many plants as possible as insurance against future losses of genetic diversity....
...Berytech, the seed fund, encouraged her to quit her job designing air conditioning, and she now has nine staff in Beirut, Berlin and Ukraine, while manufacturing in the US....
...“Urban pollution is caused by car emissions, air conditioning and smoke, all of which can weaken the skin,” says Marie McKeever, head of treatment development at Clarins....
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