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Scientists have begun to regard Gaia more seriously because the world has forced them to do so. If they are to understand such pressing environmental problems as the greenhouse effect or the consequences of mass extinctions, they will have to overcome their reluctance to look beyond their own specialties: nature...
Scientists have yet to uncover the actual mechanisms by which life processes regulate earth's climate and atmosphere. Lovelock maintains that this makes it all the more imperative that man halt the mass extinctions threatened by the destruction of tropical forests, because he does not know what creatures are essential...
Its critics notwithstanding, Gaia seems to be gaining in influence among both scientists and theologians. To some, Gaia's appeal is that it promises to end the long estrangement of Western science and religion. Even if the biosphere regulates the planet by feedback, Gaia still integrates living things and inanimate...
The alternative is Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, widow of the venerated Pedro Joaquin Chamorro Cardenal, the La Prensa newspaper publisher whose assassination by the right-wing Somoza dictatorship in 1978 touched off the uprising that led to the Sandinistas' elevation to power. Since winning the nomination of the United Nicaraguan...
"We are conducting our campaign like a long-distance runner," says Cesar, "gathering speed as we go along." But unless Chamorro injects some substance into her candidacy, the race may prove not just long distance but long shot.