Word: ecosystems
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...says Newport's Hiroshi Kanno, 63. Retired people don't need jobs; nor do they need trucks rumbling to and from a big processing plant. And they certainly don't need an outsider bottle-feeding their water to a nation of self-indulgent yuppies. "Taking springwater out of any ecosystem is like taking blood out of people," says John Steinhaus, 62. And so began a war that rages to this day. Country roads are flagged with GO AWAY PERRIER! signs, and villagers brainstorm daily to keep multibillion-dollar Perrier from siphoning a single drop. They've even hired Madison attorney...
...wish to sell off their constitutional right or moral obligation to watch over the land. Especially not when Jim Krohelski of the U.S. Geologic Survey says he doesn't trust Perrier's testing or the state's monitoring and believes the pumping "will have an adverse effect" on the ecosystem...
Congratulations on your issue covering Earth Day 2000 and the celebration of the 30th anniversary of this event [SPECIAL EDITION, April-May]. As a marine biologist, I am gravely concerned about the delicate balance of the aquatic ecosystem and how it will be affected by global warming. I was appalled, however, by the choice of Leonardo DiCaprio to write about global warming. DiCaprio has adopted a facade of "caring" about the environment, but ethically he had no problem starring in a movie like The Beach, for which the production team altered the beach in one of Thailand's most cherished...
Security experts have long warned that Microsoft software is so widely used and so genetically interconnected that it qualifies as a monoculture--that is, the sort of homogeneous ecosystem that makes as little sense in the business world as it does in the biological. Using Word, Excel and Outlook exclusively on Windows machines in a company network "is like planting Kansas with the same grain of wheat," says Bill Cheswick, a senior researcher at Lucent. When a virus preys on the crop, nothing is left standing. The companies hit hardest by the Love Bug were closed Microsoft shops. Users...
Idechong is not done with his worrying, though. As the government plans to build roads, golf courses and more hotels to boost tourism, he sees more dangers on the horizon for the country's ecosystem. "Palau right now needs visionaries--people who can say what they want Palau to look like 50 years from now, and what we must do now to make that happen." In other words, more people with Idechong's kind of vision...