Word: devourers
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...Frears has turned it into a minor movie. Its characters are too small and twisted for sympathy; its pace is too studied, a little too in awe of its artfulness, to pack a wallop. It needs to move, but doesn't, at the pace a bus-station reader would devour a paperback thriller...
...orange, wear toothy grins and sit in the middle of front + lawns across the U.S.? No, not pumpkins. They're Stuff-A-Pumpkins, giant plastic leaf bags with a jack-o'-lantern design. When filled to the brim with lawn rakings, the 260-gal. monsters seem large enough to devour a small child. A creation of Connecticut-based Sun Hill Industries, the Stuff-A-Pumpkin (retail price: $3.98) is flying off the shelves of K mart, Wal-Mart and other bargain behemoths, suddenly making the childhood chore of leaf raking such a cool job that even Bart Simpson might volunteer...
...primeval woodlands is measured not in decades but in centuries. No amount of saplings and science can make up for years of wanton harvesting, or replace a thousand-year-old fir. Only time can do that -- and time may be short for those mills that are specially designed to devour the old firs. The owners eye the forests hungrily, knowing they cannot wait for the millions of seedlings and young trees to mature. If the industry is allowed to keep cutting, some forestry experts say, the last ancient forests outside wilderness areas could fall within 30 years. Thus many mills...
...exposes it, dangling it by its tail, the mouse disappears in a blur of wings and razor-sharp talons. The owl has carried it off and up to its mate, who snips off the mouse's head and ferries it skyward to the nest, where two snowy hatchlings devour...
...reinvigorate the U.S. commitment to family planning at home and abroad. Peter Raven, director of the Missouri Botanical Garden, points out that humanity consumes or wastes 40% of the total amount of energy stored by photosynthesis in terrestrial vegetation. No one knows how much more people can devour before they begin to exhaust resources and crowd out vital ecosystems. Lester Brown of the Worldwatch Institute argues that global annual food production already falls short of human consumption and that environmental degradation reduces yields 1% annually at a time when world population is growing...