Raindrop Produce

Preserving the ancient, magical art of the Kora.(Entertainment)
Cape Times (South Africa); 12/4/2009; 1316 words; ...method, which would take him to the world stage. A harp unique to West Africa, the kora has 21 strings and produces "musical raindrops". Made of a calabash over which cow skin is stretched and a notched bridge made out of indigenous wood only...

The vampires of Vancouver.(Lifestyle)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); 11/19/2009; 1546 words; ...soles of your sneakers sink and slide in the mud and swollen raindrops bounce down the evergreens and land on your forehead with a...Games are certainly a source of pride for Vancouver, they also produce some logistical setbacks for the film commission and its potential...

Spectral Retrieval of Latent Heating Profiles from TRMM PR Data. Part IV: Comparisons of Lookup Tables from Two- and Three-Dimensional Cloud-Resolving Model Simulations
Journal of Climate; 10/15/2009; 11278 words; ...simple linear global model that the top-heavy heat source produces a Walker circulation that is in much better agreement with...explicitly simulate the conversion of cloud condensate into raindrops and various forms of precipitation ice. These processes are...

Teijin and Li Ning combine to introduce China's first closed-loop polyester-recycling programme.(Environmental)
Advances in Textiles Technology; 10/1/2009; 923 words; ...with conventional petroleum-based processes that are used to produce polyester, adds Teijin. The global market for recyclable...highly functional, combining water resistance to repel light raindrops and moisture permeability to enable perspiration to escape...

Vic: Collingwood cake steals the show
AAP General News (Australia); 9/17/2009; 548 words; ...Ascot Vale showgrounds. In the Grand Pavilion - home of all things gourmet - punters dodged raindrops and flooded into the shed to sample eclectic produce from across the state. The poor old Clydesdales were less popular as they paraded on the...