Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cynics have had the upper hand for the past three weekends. The Cynics point out that the Harvard football team hadn't lost three consecutive shutouts since dinosaurs walked the earth...
...theories. In one weekend, Reagan and Gorbachev cut through 40 years of Cold War, 40 years of terror and 40 years of playing with the lives of billions of human beings to concur on the fundamentals of a program to systematically eliminate nuclear arms from the face of the earth. Thank God, however, that they did not yet agree...
...same time, both also depend on the continuity of living, on the fact that no matter how heated the single moment, the realization of that moment is of necessity incomplete. The art of politics seems to dance between acting as if every issue were the end of the earth and simultaneously acknowledging that tomorrow will hold up a dozen fresh crucial issues. Poems imply this same incompleteness. Unlike prose, the place that a poem aims and arrives at is less important to the success of the poem than the ideas and images it uses to make the journey. By those...
...history of life on earth has been punctuated by mass extinctions, the sudden disappearance of a large variety of plants and animals, possibly as the result of impacts by giant meteors or comets. In one of the most dramatic die- offs, 65 million years ago, more than half of all species on earth, including the dinosaurs, vanished. While experts debate the cause of these catastrophes and the probability and timing of the next one, scientists at the recent National Forum on BioDiversity warned that another sort of mass extinction is now taking place...
Tropical rain forests blanket about 7% of the planet and support nearly 50% of earth's known species. A single hectare (2.5 acres) of this lush arboreal growth may include more than 100 species of tree, each with its own interdependent colonies of plants and animals. But in the past several hundred years, the area of the globe covered by rain forest has decreased by some 44%. According to one U.N. study, 23,000 sq. mi. of rain forests are cut down every year -- an area about the size of West Virginia. One World Resources Institute staffer calculated that developers...