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It self-sows with abandon, as does the remarkable and heat-loving purple hyacinth bean.
Groundwork: Beans, cute and dried Adrian Higgins 2010
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The heat-loving Bermuda greens at Memorial Park in Houston, for example, are as slick as they've ever been, in part because of the absence of fungus and other turf diseases that often arrive in wet summers.
Where the Game Is in a Dry Season John Paul Newport 2011
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Those areas are large enough, Butler said, for heat-loving creatures to live on the sun-facing region of the band and polar bears on the cold-facing side.
First 'habitable zone' planet found outside solar system Marc Kaufman 2010
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But in 1980 Ada Yonath, working with the ribosomes of heat-loving bacteria that she thought might be especially robust, succeeded in preparing the first useful crystals of the larger of the ribosome's two subunits.
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This is Penstemon 'Prairie Dusk' - a heat-loving, long-blooming perennial for sunny spots.
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Those areas are large enough, Butler said, for heat-loving creatures to live on the sun-facing region of the band and polar bears on the cold-facing side.
First 'habitable zone' planet found outside solar system Marc Kaufman 2010
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The heat has really settled in, which is fine for the heat-loving cucurbits and corn and okra and the like.
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Last year, Groundwork featured the heat-loving veggie grilled and dressed in a tomato vinaigrette.
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Department of Energy to learn more about the microbiology, genetics and genomics behind how and why heat-loving bacteria called thermotogales produce large amounts of hydrogen with unusually high efficiencies.
Sustainable Design Update » Blog Archive » Extremophile Bacteria Yeild Hydrogen (Lots!) 2008
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There is still time to order and plant the heat-loving beans, limas and yard-long and the (decorative) purple hyacinth bean.
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