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The image of the reckless multinational company bribing public officials, paving through rain-forest, dumping chemical waste, and razing villages is, fortunately, becoming a thing of the past -- not that it cannot still happen, but it is a lot less frequent.
Marcelo Giugale: How Tomorrow's Infrastructure Will Be Built Marcelo Giugale 2011
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Besides extensive rain-forest, the Asian archipelago bears other striking similarities to the Amazonian giant.
Seize Indonesia's Amazonian Opportunity Liam Denning 2011
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The Las Vegas Natural History Museum lacks both the scale of the Science Museum in London and the comprehensiveness of Tring, and yet my 10-year-old self would still have loved its stuffed polar bear, its tanks of live sharks and snakes and its interactive dinosaur exhibit and rain-forest.
Paul Carr: The Strip Diary, Day Thirty: The Las Vegas Natural History Museum Has Outlived Liberace Paul Carr 2011
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The Las Vegas Natural History Museum lacks both the scale of the Science Museum in London and the comprehensiveness of Tring, and yet my 10-year-old self would still have loved its stuffed polar bear, its tanks of live sharks and snakes and its interactive dinosaur exhibit and rain-forest.
Paul Carr: The Strip Diary, Day Thirty: The Las Vegas Natural History Museum Has Outlived Liberace Paul Carr 2011
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The Las Vegas Natural History Museum lacks both the scale of the Science Museum in London and the comprehensiveness of Tring, and yet my 10-year-old self would still have loved its stuffed polar bear, its tanks of live sharks and snakes and its interactive dinosaur exhibit and rain-forest.
Paul Carr: The Strip Diary, Day Thirty: The Las Vegas Natural History Museum Has Outlived Liberace Paul Carr 2011
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Ben & Jerry's stopped making "Rainforest Crunch" ice cream in 1997 after it surfaced that Brazil nuts in the dessert weren't actually coming from its rain-forest partners, who couldn't meet supply needs.
Skin-Deep Gains for Amazon Tribe John Lyons 2011
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With its refineries at peak production, at times during the afternoon Lord's seemed transformed into a vast urine-conversion plant or alcohol-extraction facility, some thickly-creatured rain-forest photosynthesising high-priced drunkenness into the London skies.
Sozzled - how English cricket got lost in drink | Barney Ronay 2011
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Richardson & Wrench Former interior designer Jane Marshall and her husband Peter built their dream home eight years ago amid a rain-forest remnant.
Australian Country Estate Vanessa Ko 2012
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Aveda's two-decade partnership with the Yawanawá is among the longest running tests of the idea that big firms can profit and also help the planet through business relationships with rain-forest villages, empowering them to protect their land.
Skin-Deep Gains for Amazon Tribe John Lyons 2011
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The Las Vegas Natural History Museum lacks both the scale of the Science Museum in London and the comprehensiveness of Tring, and yet my 10-year-old self would still have loved its stuffed polar bear, its tanks of live sharks and snakes and its interactive dinosaur exhibit and rain-forest.
Paul Carr: The Strip Diary, Day Thirty: The Las Vegas Natural History Museum Has Outlived Liberace Paul Carr 2011
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