You can think of them as oases in a desert.
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Apple's little secure oases can't undo the diarrhea storm in progress.
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A smattering of colorful oases in an otherwise ash-white plain.
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But at night these residential areas almost become oases of stillness.
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But these oases are drying up while Springfield continues its interminable standoff.
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Neighbors offer up their homes as oases while parents are at work.
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Piecing together the oases needed to conserve disparate species here has taken decades.
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Sunspots are oases of (relative) coolness on the Sun's visible surface, called the photosphere.
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Judging by the accompanying photos, they look more like trash oases than relaxing paradises.
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We find hidden oases, jump off bridges and get lost in the jungle together.
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The geology of the aquifer that supports these oases is complex and poorly understood.
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It rarely fills completely, but the smattering of lakes create oases in an otherwise brutal desert.
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Plenty of places to eat in New York, far too few quiet oases for intellectual pursuits.
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Yet in the greenless grime-gray, oases do occur, splendid contradictions, hearty echoes of healthier days.
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Losing these hidden oases would threaten our East Coast fisheries, which yield billions of dollars annually.
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Finding these oases when you need them isn't a restaurant problem, either; it's an information problem.
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C. briggsae are opportunistic creatures that often colonize isolated oases — say a rotting apple — as lone individuals.
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That's a problem: Facebook's acquisitions have been oases of calm and growth compared to its main business.
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And yet coral reefs are oases that support about a quarter of all known species on Earth.
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Dark and slightly wet, they resemble oases embedded within a dry, barren terrain, where mosquitos come to rest.
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Dotted through the reed-beds of Snape are little oases of woodland which have remained untouched for centuries.
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There are likely to be ecosystem effects from adding algae to the oceans or oases to the desert.
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This drive through the rolling scrubland of Texas Hill County was once dotted with small oases of civilization.
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We've rounded up the island-inspired oases of your vacation dreams, from Minneapolis to Denver and even Houston.
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There are around 13 of these tiny oases supported by Green Thumb, a division of the Parks Department.
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Those are rightly understood as oases in the broader political desert that sprawls out before Biden right now.
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Touches of beauty — spiffy hats, cascades of bougainvillea, rococo arrangements of fruit — create oases of light and pleasure.
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Discreetly hidden behind high fences, they are oases of calm that provide temporary relief and support for women.
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The premise of the series: a home-flipping format for cramped urban oases with occasional quips about Grindr.
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"I think Hefner wants the Playboy clubs to be appreciated as oases of sophistication and glamour," says Gloria Steinem.
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Arimatsu runs the Organized Autotelescopes for Serendipitous Event Survey (OASES) project that detected the new Kuiper belt object (KBO).
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But movies and television do serve as oases of comfort, even when they seem to be staking out extremes.
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It's one of the few oases of progressive thinking here, and it would be a shame if it went under.
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Scroll ahead to shop the top-rated humidifiers that will turn your dry winter spaces into hydrated, self-care oases.
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Ahead are our 12 favorite al fresco finds that hold the power to transform even stuffy dungeons into airy oases.
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The toilets at Joshua Tree National Park — a world of palm oases, lizard-dominated wilderness, and desert tortoises — are overflowing.
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Even in flyover red states like Michigan, there are historically liberal oases like Detroit full of like-minded, progressive people.
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The goal, said Dr. Catton, is to create kelp oases: places where kelp can safely rebound, free from purple urchins.
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Jonathan and Drew Scott, better known as the Property Brothers, help people purchase rundown shanties and transform them into plush oases.
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With other women employees, they began to create oases in Microsoft where courtesy was not seen as a sign of weakness.
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Rusty rocks left over from some of our planet's most extreme ice ages hint at oases for survival beneath the freeze.
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Before they felt dead, but now these places feel like digital spas, offering oases of tranquility away from the roiling news cycle.
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He enthuses about the interior, an area the size of England, a place of mountains, oases, and desert where tourists rarely venture.
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Further down the calendar, it sees Michigan and Ohio, blue-collar states where many voters oppose free-trade agreements, as shining Midwestern oases.
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Such oases of silence do exist in Shinjuku, but everything about the area around the diner suggests this is something different, something otherworldly.
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So where are these two oases in our emerging desert, the only remaining summer paradises in which to wait out the punishing season?
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Successful businesses grow dynamically, but they also try to create oases of stability and tolerance in which they can perfect their production methods.
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"At the moment we have a good ideas that there were localized oxygen oases at a certain point in time," he told Gizmodo.
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"Some of these men have little oases of compassion, within the vast desert of their contempt and hatred of women," Dr. Stone said.
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Early Uzbek settlers lived on the arid land, growing the fruit in small oases and relying on them for a safe water supply.
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Those include Al-Ahsa, one of the world's largest natural agricultural oases, which became the country's fifth UNESCO World Heritage site last month.
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With its verdant seven acres, Madison Square Park is one of those oases of foliage and calm amid the concrete mania of Manhattan.
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Crystal Lagoons, which began building these massive oases in South America and the Middle East, is now rapidly expanding into the United States.
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Film festivals usually feel like little oases, places to check out of real life for a bit and soak in the glories of cinema.
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In contrast to the Uighurs in Xinjiang, the Yugurs clung to their traditional steppe culture for centuries and did not settle into farming oases.
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Despite what you may have heard, there are a few fresh oases left in the increasingly barren desert that is the NBA's Eastern Conference.
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"Most life exists in small ice-free oases in Antarctica, and largely depends on melting snow and ice for their water supply," Bergstrom said.
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There are dozens of these oases in varying shades of blues, greens and turquoise with water so clear you can see straight to the bottom.
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The organizers created oases of calm by staging events such as charity auctions and public lectures and forums; Eko Nugroho created a workshop for children.
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Children scramble through snowy forests; lone hikers take a break to enjoy the view, and some carve out tiny oases of greenery above bustling cities.
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"The oases provided water for people and animals," says Foote, adding that camels -- which can survive with only occasional access to water -- enabled long-distance trading.
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Winter hikers — come equipped for traipsing in the snow, or perhaps skip the tramway trails for the gorgeous oases inside the nearby Indian and Tahquitz canyons.
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Read more: 7 of the most dangerous roads in the world Rather than serving as oases from traffic, many modern tunnels suffer from congestion and corroding infrastructure.
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Pictures of animals are so pure that they're oases—harbors from the storm of online life, where violence, prejudice, awful news, and heated disagreement are always around.
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Business travelers once looked to airline club rooms as calm oases that offer quiet areas to relax, work, conduct important phone calls or, perhaps, catch a nap.
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Death Valley is known for being an area of extremes, with its oases filled with tiny fish and its brittle cracked ground surrounded by snow-topped mountains.
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In Donald Trump's telling, there are places across America that have become dangerous oases for criminals, where foreign lawbreakers roam the streets without fear of the authorities.
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Anthony Vine's "Distance/Absence" places a detuned zither at its heart; Catherine Lamb's "Curvo Totalitas" explores musical shapes; and, perhaps most exciting, there's "Oases," from Alvin Lucier.
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The state's censored news outlets run propaganda videos that make the camps seem like quiet oases of work, with Uighur inmates sitting in rows at work tables.
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The park across the street was one of the verdant oases that made the wealthy La Condesa neighborhood feel completely isolated from the rest of the hustling megalopolis.
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More than a decade later, the Bennetts have parlayed their talents into a fan favorite show that focuses on flipping some seriously scary properties into tranquil desert oases.
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You can read this as a carefree holiday from college, or you can read it as springs that break up a desert, and the answer would be OASES.
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Stealthy and subtle, its central threesome of soloists — piano, violin and cello, as in Beethoven's Triple Concerto — finds oases of calm amid flares of intensity from the orchestra.
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If oases of stability like Hong Kong and Chile can boil over into chaos, it's likely more is coming and that could put additional strain on the global economy.
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In all three works, episodes of crushing sonic violence coexist with oases of serene lyrical beauty for an overall sense of smoldering, luxuriant noise — a plangent yet gorgeous howl.
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CreditCreditJoe Penney for The New York Times DIRKOU, Niger — The heavily armed troops are positioned around oases in Niger's vast northern desert, where temperatures routinely climb beyond 20023 degrees.
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Female-dominated, "pink collar" workplaces often operate under the myth that they are oases free from sexual harassment, when in fact, our analysis showed that's far from the truth.
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For more than 2,000 years, the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians lived in or traveled to such oases to escape the summer heat, which can hit 120 degrees.
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Like the twin towns of Champaign-Urbana, our public universities are cultural oases — intellectual watering holes where students of all backgrounds can gather in the pursuit of education and knowledge.
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If you're nervous about what life will be like without a Touch ID button on the iPhone X, the iPhone 723 and 713 Plus will seem like oases of consistency.
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Shifting sands, blistering heat from an all-day sun, churning salt water; little wonder so many of the Atlantic shoreline's residents gravitate to the small oases of coastal rock groins.
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Then we classified block groups as "transit deserts," with inadequate transportation services compared to demand; "transit oases," with more transportation services than demand; and areas where transit supply meets demand.
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The tributary lanes, some only eight feet wide, were built to accommodate rickshaws and bicycles, rather than cars, making shikumen tranquil oases in the heart of a traffic-plagued city.
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"Green Metropolis: The Extraordinary Landscapes of New York City as Nature, History and Design" (Alfred A. Knopf, $27.95), by Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, the first Central Park administrator, explores seven glorious oases.
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That might be a good spot for NASA's astronauts to start their explorations, perhaps scoping sites for the canals and oases desperate earthlings will need when they flee their overheated planet.
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The Common and the Public Garden are almost sacred sites in Boston, lush oases in the urban landscape that unfurl beneath the gold dome of the State House on Beacon Hill.
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The ahead spots include, but are not limited to: breezy outdoor oases, floating barges, sailboats, rooftop vineyards, culture-rich museums, and even that aforementioned surf club (DJ still present, for good measure).
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Verdant oases have been squeezed into every corner of New York City, tucked between towering skyscrapers, carved from former military posts and abandoned railroad tracks, and even laid on top of landfills.
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The Agua Caliente Band's ancestors named the region Sec-he, or "boiling water," and made good use of its hot springs and canyon oases in tempering the extremes of the local climate.
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Thankfully the drama's fellow DC Comics-CW siblings have become oases of inclusion and whiz-bang joy, so it's unlikely history-making Batwoman will make its queer leading lady's life unnecessarily painful.
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Maintaining American ownership of technological innovation is so important that Washington should be willing to create oases in the valley of death for tech startups whose work is related to national security.
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Even for the lucky caraqueños who have been able to create their own little bubbles of normality, their oases to cope — private clubs, fancy restaurants, yoga studios, comedy shows — there's no escape.
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Read on to discover eight remote, yet accessible, island oases where a mix of local culture and seclusion make for an ideal getaway to find yourself, find peace, or simply find a tan.
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When we fantasize about other people's houses, whether they're online or on TV shows or around the corner from where we live, we seem to imagine them as gleaming-surfaced oases of tranquillity.
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In research published Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Planavsky and his colleagues report the discovery of oases just beneath the ancient ice sheets that likely helped life persevere.
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Unaccompanied, hewing vaguely to a route prescribed by General Motors reps, I drove the electric car through thick soups of fog and oases of sunshine on the most beautiful chunk of the California coast.
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Ming dynasty tacticians built it in 1539, and from the peak there were views of the Gobi Desert in every direction, marked with bare mountains, oases, and in the distance, a steaming industrial plant.
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Schaeuble said G20 countries had made progress on the issue of money laundering and tax evasion, with new regulations sharply reducing the number of countries still on a black list of non-cooperative tax oases.
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Influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright, who harmonized structures with people and surroundings, Mr. Portman said his own buildings, especially hotels, were oases within cities, designed to enhance the experiences of the people who used them.
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"You have these little oases, these enclaves within the city, and it creates an opportunity," said Josh Schuster, the founder and managing principal at Silverback Development, which has several park-adjacent projects in the works.
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The kingdom is an amalgamation of the conservative central region (Najd) with the western coast (Hijaz) and the eastern oases along the Gulf coast (al-Hasa), all of which were separately administered until comparatively recently (here).
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Evidence suggested that an ice world loomed on one side of the ocean and a desert on the other, but the islands in the middle of that thin sea were expected to be lush tropical oases.
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We've decluttered our dresser drawers to make sure they're only filled with expertly folded items that spark joy, booked a sound bath healing session, and next on our list is to transform our kitchens into calming oases.
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"Large occultation surveys, as well as OASES and other small projects by amateur astronomers and citizen scientists, will reveal the nature of small outer Solar System objects hidden in the darkness," the team wrote in the paper.
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One of Manhattan's most beautiful green oases, Madison Square Park is the setting for Martin Puryear's spectacular "Big Bling," a 40-foot-tall slab of a sculpture whose silhouette resembles that of an animal of indeterminate species.
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My oases have always been empty rooms and bathroom stalls, which offer their own Clorox-scented Narnia of solitude, but when you live with someone, your confidential grieving process is a little more out in the open.
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But if there are no canals or oases on Mars, there is liquid water, the sine qua non of life as we know it, and something burping up methane, a signature, though not a proof, of life.
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" Where heaven is "an urban ideal" in the Bible (the heavenly Jerusalem), in the Quran it's "the oasis of oases, rinsed with sweet waters, with rivers running on it and under it, and with springs opening unbidden.
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And there are creative, insightful writers connecting those issues to current exhibitions and our lived lives to make art not merely something one owns, but rather something that one experiences and through which one might discover oases of meaning.
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"The deep ocean is a food desert sprinkled with food oases," he said, while explaining that it may be common for dead alligators, which are native only to the United States and China, to fall to the ocean floor.
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The often symmetrical, patterned ground that separates the Fairy Circles is caused by the intense competition for resources; a kind of matrix is formed, where individual colonies of plants and termites come together in an overarching mesh-like pattern, creating evenly-spaced oases.
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If we put half the energy into helping people living in food deserts get to food as we have into apps that get food to affluent folks living in "food oases," we could enable healthier eating and cost savings to millions of people.
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BARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Paris plans to turn its school playgrounds into public "oases" offering cool, green spaces for children and parents alike as climate change ratchets up extreme heat and rainfall, just one of 35 actions in a new urban plan for the French capital.
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Naturally, these green-draped self-care oases are a source of envy for anyone who considers their daily skincare routine to be an almost spiritual practice, but how do you know if the plants you're bringing into your bathroom are actually good for that specific space?
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Clustered around her grandmother's outdoor oven, the matrons of the family made nan bread and other dishes traditional to their community, the Uighurs, a predominantly Muslim Turkic group that called an immense territory of deserts and oases home long before it became the northwestern part of China.
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In Atlanta, for instance, there is an ambitious plan for a bike-lane network that will cover the entire city; Oslo is considering a ban on cars in the downtown area; in Seoul and New York, former elevated thruways and subway routes have been converted into pedestrian oases.
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Previously, scientists thought that oxygen-dependent life may have been restricted to meltwater puddles on the surface of the ice, but the new study published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences provides evidence of "oxygen oases" below the ice where the glacier meets the sea.
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Although I came to love the gritty flowers that bloom from the Mojave's desiccated land, the fields of cactuses that pop up unexpectedly, and the hidden oases that insisted you hunt for them by wandering off the main road, it was this sensation of dislocation that captivated me and called me back.
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In Elle Décor's new September issue, Cohen and Hughes give fans a look inside the Instagram oases they created, three separate rooms filled with everything from colorful wacky wallpaper (available at Hughes' own line Wallshoppe line), millennial pink furniture, funky mirrors (for selfies of course) and a wide of array of mixed prints, patterns and tchotchkes galore.
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The notion of Martian life gained popularity and respectability when Percival Lowell, a well-regarded scientist who founded the Lowell Observatory in Arizona, spent 15 years gazing at Mars at the close of the 19th century and came up with detailed maps of canals and oases, positing that they had been built by a civilization desperately tapping its last source of water as the planet dried up.
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To honor him rightfully on the day that is dedicated in his name would be to remember the rich legacy of mutual aid, self-determination and personal responsibility that enabled blacks to achieve remarkable victories in spite of daunting odds and oppression, and to look to the oases of excellence in low-income communities today where these same values are producing inspiring models of achievement.
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Fortunately, these adaptations are much more appealing than the actual stench of any given metropolitan area; to my surprise, New York's Tubereuse 40 smells more like the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (one of the city's only true oases) instead of the counter of a Papaya Dog past midnight, and Dallas' Aldehyde 44 isn't a mixture of hay and the inside of a cowboy boot but composed around the same iconic note found in Chanel No. 5.
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The punishing, omni-radiant heat in the summer; the herds of emaciated cows that lazed, like yogic oases of calm, smack in the middle of deadly traffic; the smog that moved in great drifts through the streets in winter; the burnt smell of desiccated dung used for cooking fuel—these only enhanced the blazes of beauty Delhi could provide, in its crumbling tombs, its lush Mughal gardens, its scorched sky flecked with paper kites.
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The trail guide offers two-, three-, four- and five-day itineraries, all snaking across the so-called Negev Highlands and offering visitors access to the town of Mitzpe Ramon and its gaping Ramon Crater, regarded as Israel's Grand Canyon; to Sde Boker, the beloved home of Israel's founding father David Ben-Gurion; and across undulating desert craters striped in yellow and pink; through desert oases where green water pools from limestone and dolomite; and past herds of ibex and the world's last remaining handful of Arabian leopards.
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Before diving in to the details, here are some numbers: 53: The number of city pools 900: The number of pool lifeguards 1.7 million: The number of users last summer 16 million: The total number of gallons in all the pools $0: The entry fee Yes, these urban oases are free, but before you plunge into that cool, chlorinated bliss, you must show an attendant at the entrance that you have a conventional bathing suit — shorts must have a lining — and a sturdy padlock to secure your belongings in a locker.
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We find, in the first place, that the broad physical conditions of the planet are not antagonistic to some form of life; secondly, that there is an apparent dearth of water upon the planet's surface,and therefore, if beings of sufficient intelligence inhabited it, they would have to resort to irrigation to support life; thirdly, that there turns out to be a network of markings covering the disk precisely counterparting what a system of irrigation would look like; and, lastly, that there is a set of spots placed where we should expect to find the lands thus artificially fertilized, and behaving as such constructed oases should.
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