Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sanctified ghetto," as a former director of game research in Tsavo bitterly describes it, was an unbroken stretch of umbrella forest only two generations ago. Since then the elephants, condemned to death by overcrowding, have eaten much of the Tsavo down to bare laterite earth. "Where they make a desert, they call it peace"-the ancient Roman epigram is the epitaph to East Africa's conservation policy...
...occasionally venturing down to the River. And there are for those more adventurous types who lack large families to organize and small children to buy ski boots for, some beautiful places in New Hampshire and Maine that provide excellent cross-country skiing. In fact, Acadia National Park, on Mt. Desert Island in Maine, is reputed to be absolutely beautiful, though I've never had my act together long enough to make it up there. So if you're interested, it looks as though there will be some snow this winter. Good luck...
...device worked so well that Cataldo formed his own company in Burbank, Calif., Microlert Systems International, and has sold or leased more than a thousand of the electronic lifesavers. Says Marie Franckum, a 70-year-old widow from Desert Hot Springs, Calif.: "About three weeks after having it installed I had a severe heart attack. I used it to call my doctor and an ambulance. It saved my life...
...Western Europe and in the deltas of the Nile, Ganges and Niger rivers. Wells drilled into geopressured zones could supply fresh water as well as energy. At atmospheric pressure the hot water flashes into steam and concentrated brine. The steam can be condensed into pure drinking water, which in desert regions is almost as precious...
...cultural anthropology. Richard E Leakey, renowned paleoanthropologist (he digs up skulls and other bone fragments in Africa) confronts the problem of envisioning human ancestors that lived over 2 million years ago and have left us only a few clues in the form of bone splinters now half covered by desert sand...