Word: carbonized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thick layer of soot at the site, which according to radioactive carbon-14 dating was laid down about 1400 B.C., supports the biblical idea that the city was burned, not simply conquered. Finally, Egyptian amulets found in Jericho graves can be dated to around 1400 B.C. as well. Says Wood: "It looks to me as though the biblical stories are correct...
...environmental President, is making trees a kind of fetish of his Administration. In his budget submitted last week, Bush allotted $175 million to plant 1 billion trees this year. By the year 2000 there should be 10 billion new trees that eventually should absorb 13 million tons of carbon dioxide a year, or 5% of the nation's annual emissions...
...least a 15% reduction in the production of ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons. But Washington is letting the four CFC manufacturers decide how to allocate the pain; they can buy and sell CFC production rights. Senator Wirth thinks that global warming could be countered by international trading of permits to emit carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases...
Many Americans fear that national testing will lead to a national curriculum, inviting education by remote control from Washington and causing schools to turn out carbon-copy students. With its long history of local autonomy, the U.S. is unlikely ever to adopt such a system formally. Still, even traditionalists concede that the U.S. has a de facto common curriculum, driven largely by widely used standardized exams and the homogenized fare dished up by textbook publishers...
...with the dramatic increase in recent years in the release of trace gases, such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), methane, nitrogen oxides and especially carbon dioxide, from industrial sources, the atmosphere is undergoing strains possibly never before experienced in its history...