Word: environmental
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This time, it appeared, the worst had been averted. The vessel's two reactors were shut down, and no fatalities were reported. Soviet officials insisted there had been no venting of radiation, thus no threat to people or the environment; Norwegian tests showed no unusual radiation in the area. Nonetheless...
...which are up to 40 miles wide, are intended to catch squid and tuna, but also entangle many other kinds of fish as well as seabirds and marine mammals. Roger McManus, president of the Washington-based Center for Marine Conservation, has gone so far as to call the Japanese "environmental terrorists...
Baird Professor of Science E.O. Wilson, on the other hand, is one of the most approachable professors at the University. He and Gould have a long history of disagreement on the comparative roles of heredity and environment in biology. "Everything Stephen Jay Gould understands, we agree on," quips Wilson.
TALKING with those people and living in an academic environment spurred me, for the first time in my life, to question my comfortable assumptions. Under the barrage of new experiences, I couldn't help but alter the way I viewed the world.
...them no hint of what its members were thinking. The President's advisers then fought it out among themselves at six meetings of the Domestic Policy Council. EPA administrator William Reilly pressed for stringent measures; budget boss Richard Darman argued that the cost did not justify the health and environmental benefits. Bush attended three of those meetings and called environmentalists and industrialists into the White House to present their cases directly to him. Finally, White House chief of staff John Sununu took three 30-page single-spaced option papers to Camp David on Saturday, June 10. He and the President...