Word: ecosystems
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...property in Pound Ridge, New York. To bring the critters back, she put native grasses among her perennial flowers, planted a woodland garden, resurrected an old pond and created a wildflower meadow. Author of the new book Noah's Garden, Stein decries "the vast, nearly continuous and terribly impoverished ecosystem" consisting of copycat lawns and gardens from coast to coast. "We cannot in fairness rail against those who destroy the rain forest or threaten the spotted owl," she says, "when we have made our own yards uninhabitable...
Listen, prefrosh. Harvard isn't just diverse. It's an ecosystem unto itself...
...contributor, writing big articles, such as the cover story on the discovery of the prehistoric Iceman, which was our second-best-selling cover of 1992, and smaller pieces, like his personal favorite on the scientists who use the nests of pack rats to study the state of the ecosystem thousands of years ago. His ; continuing delight in these stories reflects what he calls a "child-like" fascination with the subject matter. "Children are fascinated by science," he explains. "They're curious, and they ask questions. When you become an adult, you stop doing that because it's embarrassing...
...computer nerds were it not for the fact that it has stood up to a variety of tests. Some experiments have been done in the lab, as with tiny sandpiles. More often they take place inside computers. Scientists create mathematical models of real- world systems -- the stock market, an ecosystem, a group of living cells -- and let them evolve on the screen. If the computerized world behaves as the real one does, there is a good chance the underlying mathematics is valid...
...developers, ranchers, auto manufacturers and an endless assortment of highly focused interests that can make life uncomfortable for environmentally minded politicians, even when they have broad support in the community. This leads to what might be called the first law of environmental decline: the long-term health of an ecosystem recedes in importance when people are fighting over access to specific resources for their short-term economic interests. This is hardly surprising in a country that cannot come to grips with the long-term problems of its budget deficit and whose major corporations are dominated by managers who will...