Word: copes
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...planet's ability to sustain itself. Scientific inventions and discoveries ameliorate the problem but not enough to prevent global disaster. Widespread demand for food and manufactured products has contaminated our food chain, arable land and water sources, as well as the air we breathe. We must all begin to cope with the results of urban sprawl and help prevent the destruction of Earth's ecological balance and the life of our planet. FAY SMITH Richardson, Texas...
Seven hours after an early dinner, the gnawing hunger begins to cloud our rational faculties. Some of us cope by gorging on greasy Tommy's pizza; others splurge on Slurpees at 7-Eleven. And a few enterprising students will create something that looks like Stouffer's Mac & Cheese...
Some schools cope by employing volunteers to help in the classroom. At Forest Trail Elementary in Austin, Texas, Marie Grace, a stay-at-home mom, serves one day a week on "table time." During a recent visit, she sat at a table with five children and passed out Froot Loops cereal. First the children sorted the cereal by color, then they talked about the letter f and which words begin with f. The students then made a graph showing how many loops of each color they had. Then they made a necklace of the loops and, finally, ate them. When...
...Alzheimer's Association www.alz.org for support groups and adult day-care centers. It also runs an invaluable service called Safe Return, which helps with searches for Alzheimer's patients who wander from home. Whether you suffer dementia or love someone who does, the condition is difficult enough to cope with without trying to face it alone...
Biotechnology is giving us additional tools to cope with waste--and turn it to our advantage. We now have microbes that can take toxic substances in contaminated soil or sludge--including organic solvents and industrial oils--and convert them into harmless by-products. Soon we may be using genetic engineering to create what Reid Lifset, editor of the Journal of Industrial Ecology, calls "designer waste streams." Consider all that stalk, or stover, that every corn plant grows along with its kernels. Scientists at Monsanto and Heartland Fiber are working toward engineering corn plants with the kind of fiber content that...