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...readers like me who were impressionable kids during the last great green boom, in the early 1990s, the original environmental guru isn't Al Gore but a certain blue-skinned, green-haired, red-briefs-wearing superhero. That would be Captain Planet, summoned by the combined powers of his Planeteers to battle the enemies of Earth like Looten Plunder and Sly Sludge. (The early '90s were a simpler time.) The animated Captain Planet series aired for a few years before petering to an end in 1996 - just a little before the U.S. failed to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, which is almost...
...captain is back, this time online as one of the top features offered by a new environmental website, the Mother Nature Network (MNN). Launched by a group of green Atlantans, including Chuck Leavell, a part-time tree planter and full-time keyboardist for the Rolling Stones, MNN is the latest website to try to ride the environmental wave online. (See grist.org, treehugger.org and TIME's own Going Green.) But if the idea behind MNN isn't new, the website's sheer ambition is. Launched in the teeth of the recession and a media apocalypse that has not spared environment-themed...
...bright spot in last night’s game was the return of tri-captain Jenny Brine, who had missed the last three games with an injury...
...Crimson’s part, the effort was there but the shots weren’t falling. Harvard attacked the net from all angles, but nothing seemed to work. Crimson co-captain Sarah Vaillancourt, a sleight-of-hand specialist with outstanding stick-handling ability, pulled out all the stops, but every juke resulted in a tipped puck and every nifty pass just barely eluded its intended receiver...
There are an estimated 10 million deer hunters in the U.S., and 80% of the annual $20 billion spent in the hunting industry is focused on the pursuit of the fleet-footed creatures, according to a federal census study released two years ago. For Captain Greg Williford, a Texas game warden, deer-hunting is a cultural tradition that has undergone major changes in the past decade; he now finds himself using the same undercover methods employed by federal drug agents to combat deer smugglers, who are lured to the illicit trade by big bucks for, well, big bucks...