Word: coasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first report focuses on the seas, and for the lead profile TIME essayist Roger Rosenblatt explored the California coast with Sylvia Earle, a noted deep-sea diver and ocean advocate. Says he: "In a few days, she taught me the wonder of her world. I think she loves her subject too much to keep it to herself." Other stories came from a global team of TIME correspondents and contributors: Lisa Beyer, Jack Epstein, Christopher Hallowell, Thomas Sancton and John Skow. Beyer discovered that one of Jordan's leading conservationists is a 28-year-old cousin of King Hussein...
...native Jordan, is the goal of Princess Basma Bint Ali, a cousin of King Hussein's. Princess Basma, 28, is president of the Jordan Royal Ecological Diving Society, which works to protect the delicate undersea world in the Gulf of Aqaba off Jordan's 16 miles of southern coast...
...have to love it before you are moved to save it," says Sylvia Earle, the marine biologist known as "Her Deepness" since the time in 1979, off the coast of Oahu, when she was cut loose from a submarine and walked freely on the ocean floor, 1,250 ft. beneath the water's surface. The object of her affection requires love of a special magnitude and magnanimity. One has to concede at the outset that the ocean is too vast, deep and secretive to be completely known. It is capable of casual murder and filled with structures that make Picasso...
...clams open on their chests. They wrap themselves in leaves so as not to drift away while sleeping. First Russians, then Americans killed them for their fur, and they became almost extinct by the early 1900s. Declared endangered, they now number more than 2,000 along California's central coast. Earle tells me she once saw an otter opening clams with a Coke bottle...
...fields into streams and eventually into the ocean. This spurs the harmful overgrowth of algae and the spread of toxic microbes that can kill fish and cause human health problems, such as liver and kidney ills and amnesia. Billions of fish died along the Middle and Southern Atlantic coast in recent years because of suspected pollution from upstream sources. On a tour of the land area around Big Sur, my guide from the California Coastal Commission, Lee Otter (yes), noted as a caution and as a fact that "something always lives downstream from something else...