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  • The room's decor is like a movie set of a tropical rain forest.†   (source)
  • Like the time I wouldn't go to church with Grandm"re because I refused to pray to a god who would allow rain forests to be destroyed in order to make grazing room for cows who would later become Quarter Pounders for the ignorant masses who worship that symbol of all that is evil, Ronald McDonald.†   (source)
  • Child Protective Services enjoyed killing rainforests.†   (source)
  • Clearing a rain forest to plant annuals is like stripping an animal first of its fur, then its skin.†   (source)
  • We ain't out of the rain forest yet, Padre.†   (source)
  • In the darkness there was that weird tribal music, which seemed to come from the earth itself, from the deep rain forest, and a woman's voice rising up in a language beyond translation.†   (source)
  • If you take an acre of rain forest or a cubic mile of ocean or a square block of Compton and strain out all the nonliving stuff-dirt and water-you get the biomass.†   (source)
  • The Mirage — with its five-story volcano, its shark tank, dolphin tank, indoor rain forest, Lagoon Saloon, DKNY boutique, and Secret Garden of Siegfried & Roy — is a fine place for the surreal.†   (source)
  • That's why we're all at camp in the middle of a flipping rain forest," he said, gesturing outside.†   (source)
  • She read a story once about a middle-aged Turkish man who had suddenly slipped into a deep depression when the twin brother he never knew existed had suffered a fatal heart attack while on a canoe excursion in the Amazon rain forest.†   (source)
  • Technically a rain forest, the Jungle is housed in a towering greenhouse, complete with soaring rubber trees, strangler figs, and a canopy catwalk for more daring tourists.†   (source)
  • When this is over, Alex promised silently, we will go to the rain forest, or the pyramids, or a beach as white as bone.†   (source)
  • They were trunks of rain-forest trees turned to stone—teaks, podo trees, evergreens.†   (source)
  • It's one of those rain-forest showers where the water pours on you straight from above in a long, heavy stream.†   (source)
  • For example, right now I would appear to be alone in the middle of a rain forest.†   (source)
  • On television I can see animals in the rain forest or the desert.†   (source)
  • The commendation certificate, stuffed by Adam into a file in a desk drawer, read, For professional achievement in the superior performance of his duties while serving as a member of a volunteer rescue team that provided medical assistance and comfort to an injured service member in the El Yunque Rainforest from 5-6 May 2002.†   (source)
  • You could hide in the rain forest for years.†   (source)
  • Huge tropical rain-forests sprawled everywhere.†   (source)
  • And so it was that the schooner Sweet Judy sailed though a rain forest, with Captain Roberts, inspired to instant creativity, making up a new verse explicably missing from the original hymn: "Oh Thou who built'st the mountains high, To be the pillars of the sky—"†   (source)
  • The people, fresh from the rain forests and death squads and endless slums, did not mind it so much.†   (source)
  • I know what brings me peace, and it isn't sandy beaches or chirping birds in rain forests.†   (source)
  • Door number two led to the Garden Room, which was like a lush, overgrown rainforest, but with tables, chairs, and waiters.†   (source)
  • RAIN FOREST†   (source)
  • Her subservience to her father, for example, was complete, as complete as in any neopaleolithic pigmy culture of the rain forest, demanding utter fealty from the helpless offspring.†   (source)
  • It was, he decided, jungle of semi-rainforest type, not dense enough to require chopping one's way.†   (source)
  • Rather different from the vegetation on the mainland, which is more classical rain forest.†   (source)
  • But there were no breaks in the ongoing rain forest.†   (source)
  • A real and genuine laugh, a sound about as expected as a car alarm in a rain forest.†   (source)
  • Another hot strain from the rain forest.†   (source)
  • In the cool shadows pooling on the rain forest floor, a ratlike creature digs for tender roots.†   (source)
  • You could say that rain-forest viruses are extremely good at looking after their own interests.†   (source)
  • The Ebola River empties tracts of rain forest, winding past scattered villages.†   (source)
  • They are large, wild animals from the rain forest.†   (source)
  • Monet and his friend wandered through the cave, shining their lights on the petrified rain forest.†   (source)
  • The rain forests are also its largest reservoirs of viruses, since all living things carry viruses.†   (source)
  • They have a competitive relationship with people who live in the rain forest.†   (source)
  • The stream gurgled out of the rain forest, and it was a strange color, milky with volcanic dust.†   (source)
  • The monkeys themselves came from coastal rain forests on the island of Mindanao.†   (source)
  • Feels like a tropical rain forest now.†   (source)
  • McDonald's had made a huge tactical error by asserting that everything in the leaflet was libelous — not only the more extreme claims ("McDonald's and Burger King are …. using lethal poisons to destroy vast areas of Central American rainforest"), but also the more innocuous ones ("a diet high in fat, sugar, animal products, and salt …. is linked with cancers of the breast and bowel, and heart disease").†   (source)
  • Late at night, when the Greenies were out on ambush, the whole rain forest seemed to stare in at them-a watched feeling-and a couple of times they almost saw her sliding through the shadows.†   (source)
  • -after a week in the trackless, yellow rain forest, after a week of exhausting climb up the ever steeper shoulder of the.†   (source)
  • There is just a light dusting of gold around the edges where it fades into the rain forest, thickening and intensifying as it approaches the har. bor-a long narrow fjordlike notch cut into the straight coastline of Oregon, a deep cold trench of black water heading straight out to Japan.†   (source)
  • Secretive and suspicious, loners by nature, the six Greenies would sometimes vanish for days at a time, or even weeks, then late in the night they would just as magically reappear, moving like shadows through the moonlight, filing in silently from the dense rain forest off to the west.†   (source)
  • Anyone from the plantations could have killed us as we slept in the rain forest or-better yet from a murderer's point of view-deep in the flame forest where no one would wonder at two charred corpses.†   (source)
  • When the hunter goes out in the rain forest to seek food for his family, does he expect to control nature?†   (source)
  • It accused the fast food chain of promoting Third World poverty, selling unhealthy food, exploiting workers and children, torturing animals, and destroying the Amazon rain forest, among other things.†   (source)
  • Yet, within its limited space, Costa Rica had a remarkable diversity of biological habitats: seacoasts on both the Atlantic and the Pacific; four separate mountain ranges, including twelve-thousand-foot peaks and active volcanoes; rain forests, cloud forests, temperate zones, swampy marshes, and arid deserts.†   (source)
  • I did administer Extreme Unction, but then the panic struck me and I left my poor guide's body, desperately searched through the supplies for a weapon, and took away the machete I had used in the rain forest and the low-voltage maser with which I had planned to hunt small game.†   (source)
  • To the north, the hills and rainforests of Lynn Canyon Park snaked between the subdivisions of North Vancouver until they gave way to the wilderness.†   (source)
  • The rain forest turned scraggly.†   (source)
  • The reunited Amazons had been anxious to return home as well—they had a difficult time being away from their beloved rain forest—though they were more reluctant to leave than some of the others.†   (source)
  • It is embedded with stone logs, the remains of a tropical rain forest that was swept up in the eruption and buried in ash and mud.†   (source)
  • The tropical rain forests are the deep reservoirs of life on the planet, containing most of the world's plant and animal species.†   (source)
  • On the plains, it is easy for elephants to find salt in hardpans and dry water holes, but in the rain forest salt is a precious thing.†   (source)
  • AIDS is the revenge of the rain forest.†   (source)
  • The cave is a petrified rain forest.†   (source)
  • On his travels in rain forests and tropical savannas, he ate with pleasure whatever the locals were eating.†   (source)
  • The strain of Ebola virus that had erupted near Washington went into hiding somewhere in the rain forest.†   (source)
  • He performed research on defenses against hot viruses—vaccines, drug treatments—and he did basic medical research on rain-forest viruses.†   (source)
  • Whatever the original host of the virus, it seems that a blood-to-blood contact in the rain forest enabled the virus to move into the human world.†   (source)
  • An eruption of Mount Elgon about seven million years ago had buried the rain forest in ash, and the logs had been transformed into opal and chert.†   (source)
  • It was an aerial view of rain forest.†   (source)
  • The rain forest has its own defenses.†   (source)
  • The emergence of AIDS, Ebola, and any number of other rain-forest agents appears to be a natural consequence of the ruin of the tropical biosphere.†   (source)
  • It was like looking into a rain forest.†   (source)
  • Many of them come from the tattered edges of tropical rain forest, or they come from tropical savanna that is being settled rapidly by people.†   (source)
  • A hot virus from the rain forest lives within a twenty-four-hour plane flight from every city on earth.†   (source)
  • In some parts of the world, these monkeys are called kras, because of the sound they make, and many people who live in Asian rain forests consider them to be obnoxious pests.†   (source)
  • In 1976, at the time of the Zaire outbreak, the branch was being run by a doctor named Karl M. Johnson, a virus hunter whose home terrain had been the rain forests of Central and South America.†   (source)
  • As the sun came up, the mountain turned silvery green, the color of the Mount Elgon rain forest, and as the day progressed clouds appeared and hid the mountain from view.†   (source)
  • What had happened at Nairobi Hospital was an isolated emergence, a microbreak of a rain-forest virus with unknown potential to start an explosive chain of lethal transmission in the human race.†   (source)
  • In its own evolution through unknown hosts and hidden pathways in the rain forest, Ebola seems to have developed the worst elements of all the above viruses.†   (source)
  • On July 6, 1976, five hundred miles northwest of Mount Elgon, in southern Sudan, near the fingered edge of the central-African rain forest, a man who is known to Ebola hunters as Yu.†   (source)
  • As you head south, toward Zaire, the land rises and forms hills, and the forest begins to spread away from the rivers and thickens into a closed canopy, and you enter the rain forest.†   (source)
  • The mountain is a biological island of rain forest in the center of Africa, an isolated world rising above dry plains, fifty miles across, blanketed with trees, bamboo, and alpine moor.†   (source)
  • Hazleton began buying more monkeys from the Philippines, from the same monkey house near Manila, and restocked the building with crab-eating monkeys that had been trapped in the rain forests of Mindanao.†   (source)
  • There have been rumors that wealthy people in the Philippines who own private estates in the rain forest have been importing African animals illegally, releasing them into the Philippine jungle, and hunting them.†   (source)
  • This was not lowland rain forest, where the crowns of trees merge into a closed canopy, but an African montane rain forest, a particular kind of forest with a broken canopy, penetrated by holes and clearings.†   (source)
  • I find it extremely interesting to consider the idea that the chimpanzee is an endangered rain-forest animal and then to contemplate the idea that a virus that moved from chimps into us is suddenly not endangered at all.†   (source)
  • Monet came into the country in the summer of 1979, around the time that the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, which causes AIDS, made a final breakout from the rain forests of central Africa and began its long burn through the human race.†   (source)
  • Jahrling had worked at the Institute for most of his career, after an early period in which he had lived in Central America and hunted for viruses in the rain forest (he had discovered several previously unknown strains).†   (source)
  • As the eye moved from the lowlands to the uplands, the farms gave way to patches of shrubby trees, to fingers and clumps of larger trees, and then to an unbroken blanket of primeval East African rain forest, one of the rarest and most endangered tropical forests on the planet.†   (source)
  • They approached the frayed outer edge of the Mount Elgon rain forest, passing by fingers and islands of trees, and they passed the Mount Elgon Lodge, an English inn built in the earlier part of the century, now falling into disrepair, its walls cracked and its paint peeling off in the sun and rain.†   (source)
  • They sat on the leopard-skin seats and stared out the windows at endless tracts of rain forest and brown river, a featureless blanket broken by the occasional gleam of an oxbow lake or a cluster of round huts strung like beads on a barely visible road or footpath.†   (source)
  • The road to Mount Elgon is a segment of the AIDS highway, the Kinshasa Highway, the road that cuts Africa in half, along which the AIDS virus traveled during its breakout from somewhere in the African rain forest to every place on earth.†   (source)
  • Two months after the start of the Sudan emergence—the time was now early September 1976—an even more lethal filovirus emerged five hundred miles to the west, in a district of northern Zaire called Bumba Zone, an area of tropical rain forest populated by scattered villages and drained by the Ebola River.†   (source)
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