Word: earths
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...town of 2,200. The back issues form a tapestry of small events, a century of stories of children's birthdays, club meetings, 4-H calves, men and women going off to war and, always, the terrors and joys of the Great Prairie weather. Good people, good earth, both granted dignity and meaning on the pages of a tiny paper...
...best estimate -- from the National Committee for Adoption in Washington -- is that there were more than 60,000 adoptions by * nonrelatives in 1986. The figure would be much higher were it not for a great and tragic irony: while adoptive parents will literally go to the ends of the earth to find healthy white, or perhaps Asian, infants, thousands of other American youngsters who are older or black or handicapped go begging for homes. In 1986 the nation's foster-care system harbored at least 36,000 of these adoptable "special-needs" children. Some 13,500 found families. That same...
INTERNATIONAL BALLOON FESTIVAL. More hot air than any convention on earth. Hundreds of giant rainbow-hued balloons converge on Albuquerque (or just above it) for the largest annual ballooning extravaganza...
...relations with nature, we've been playing a deadly game of cowboys and Indians. We all started as Indians. Many primitive cultures -- and the indigenous peoples still clinging today to their pockets of underdevelopment -- regarded the earth and all its creatures as alive. Nature was a whistling wind tunnel of spirits. With the rise of a scientific, clockwork cosmos and of missionary Christianity, with its message of man's dominion and relentless animus against paganism, nature was metaphorically transformed. It became dead meat...
...Scientists have found that certain actions have a feedback effect on the actor. Smilers actually feel happier; debaters become enamored of their own arguments; a good salesman sells himself first. You become what you pretend to be. We can pretend to be unselfish and connected to the earth. We can pretend that 30- ft.-long, black-tinted-glass, air-conditioned limos are unfashionable because we know that real men don't need air conditioning. We can pretend that we believe it is wrong to loot the earth for the benefit of a single generation of a single species...