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...Wangari Maathai took on a formidable mission: holding back Kenya's advancing desert. Rampant tree cutting and unchecked population growth have stripped much of the country's land, generating hunger and poverty. In response, Maathai organized the Green Belt Movement, a national tree-planting program run by women. "Because women here are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve," explains Maathai, 49, who was the first Kenyan woman to earn a Ph.D. (in anatomy) and the first to become a professor at the University of Nairobi...
...lawyer Denis Hayes, hopes to saturate the public consciousness and create what he calls a "tilt point" in attitudes, refocusing the passions of the cold war on ecological issues. Hayes hopes that Earth Day will help make sound environmental behavior as accepted in daily life as wearing a seat belt. Democratic Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts believes Earth Day will help recruit an army of voters to hold slippery politicians truly accountable for environmental problems in coming elections...
...Union with 10 or 12 waxed-paper cups on his tray maybe half of them filled, most of them probably just extras he grabbed accidentally. The happy first-year finishes his meal, brings his tray to the waste baskets and conveyor belt, and proceeds to throw out the equivalent of a small tree...
...past 13 years, 121 executions have been carried out in the U.S., most of them in Texas, Florida, Louisiana and Georgia. The prospect that the Southern "death belt" will be joined by California has opponents of capital punishment worried. "California is the key state in the death-penalty debate," says American University law professor Ira Robbins. "If a fairly moderate-to-liberal state can execute someone, then states such as Ohio and Pennsylvania might be next...
...that is, the skirt. The dominant silhouette at the Paris fall collections was a big top with tights or leggings, often accompanied by boots that climbed well above the knee. In between there was often a sort of apron that resembled a vestigial skirt or, more fancifully, a superwide belt. Only a few classic houses featured any skirts in the usual sense of the word, and only Yves Saint Laurent covered the knee in a few outfits...