Word: decays
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...components like collagen, notes Knoll, animals simply cannot grow large. But for most of earth's history, the production of oxygen through photosynthesis - the metabolic alchemy that allowed primordial algae to turn carbon dioxide, water and sunlight into energy - was almost perfectly balanced by oxygen-depleting processes, especially organic decay. Indeed, the vast populations of algae that smothered the Precambrian oceans generated tons of vegetative debris, and as bacteria decomposed this slimy detritus, they performed photosynthesis in reverse, consuming oxygen and releasing carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas that traps heat and helps warm the planet...
...However tattered it may be, the notion of a global human commonwealth is integral to the postwar world and its challenges. As a new century nears, the invention of 1945 may gain a new lease on life in tackling such genuinely globe-girdling issues as energy supplies, counterterrorism, environmental decay and drug trafficking, as well as disease control-jobs no single country can manage. Says Eban: "In the end, the idea of world community is going to succeed. Therefore, the U.N. should dig in its heels and bide its time. The idea of living without a unitary framework of relations...
Slot machines and cultural decay do not go hand in hand, dozens of Native American leaders said Saturday at "Raising the Stakes," a Harvard conference on Native American gaming sponsored by Cultural Survival...
Representative Robert Dornan of California referred to the O.J. Simpson trial as an example of the "advanced and accelerating moral decay" in America...
Audience members were also concerned with the issue of moral decay...