Last year's bloom, because of inhospitable weather, was less than awe-inspiring -- I counted perhaps a dozen at the height of the bloom (usually around July 10).
Studies of Kalahari Bushmen and other nomadic groups show that hunter-gatherers, even in the most inhospitable landscapes, typically spend less than twenty hours a week obtaining food.
If the MSL Curiosity Rover (whose one-year-on-Mars anniversary is Aug. 6) was NASA's most ambitious mission to Mars to date, the Mars Sample Return Mission will be like finding and bringing back the Holy Grail, on an inhospitable, cold, desert-like planet, no less.
In fact, TARP (and its "sister act" from July 2010, "Dodd-Frank") has made conditions particularly inhospitable for America's better-managed, less-guilty banks.
Usually the barge is piled high with debris skimmed from the harbor, making it an inhospitable place for any living thing, much less an environmentally imperiled bird.
And with Republicans nationwide facing an inhospitable political climate, House members are far less motivated by party discipline than by what they believe it will take to get re-elected.
But it does argue that areas with high and rising levels of homeownership are more likely to be inhospitable to innovation and job creation and to have less labor mobility and longer commutes to work.
Inhabitants of Hirta, the largest island of the St. Kilda group, were known to have frequented Boreray to hunt birds and gather wool during the summer months, but until the 2011 excavations Boreray islet, which has an area of less than one square kilometre (247 ac), had been considered too inhospitable for permanent settlement.
Imagine leaving everything and everyone you know to live in an inhospitable place that treats you as if you were less than human.
