Word: bendingly
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Loggers take pains to lend a pretense of legality to their ventures, but loopholes and lack of enforcement make it easy to bend the law in ingenious and profitable ways. In the district of Khabarovsk, the government tried to impose environmental controls on logging but allowed officials to exempt concessions smaller than 5,000 acres from strict review. Alexander Kulikov, chairman of the Khabarovsk Wildlife Foundation, says that just before they leave office, local officials hand out dozens of concessions, often to friends and relatives. He says that in the Khor River watershed, a region of about...
Does this mean that science is on the verge of understanding consciousness? Not necessarily. San Diego's Churchland compares the search for answers to a canoe trip into the wilderness. Every time the canoe rounds a bend in the river, the landscape changes. She believes the journey has barely begun and that there are bound to be surprises in store. Certainly, science has finally started to shed light on a puzzle that is not just abstract and philosophical, but intimately familiar to anyone who gives it a moment's thought. But as physicist Penrose has suggested, the notion that...
Cooper says the town gossips didn't bother themmuch. The two friends spent many afternoons aloneat the Shawnee Bend golf course, playing thenine-hole layout. "At the beginning at least, wewere hack golfers, though Brad was on the highschool team. It was a good break from the rurallife...
...Paramount and Warner also scouting available stations, the competition is tough. He could attempt to buy companies that own several stations, like Chicago-based Tribune Broadcasting, which has eight. Or he could pick them off one by one. Last month the boss himself persuaded the owners of a South Bend, Indiana, station to switch its affiliation from...
Harvard is in action again Saturday when it takes on Notre Dame at South Bend...