Word: environmental
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In another age, in a simpler society, a drought of these dimensions was mostly a farm calamity. What could make this drought more menacing than anything yet seen should the rains not come is the interwoven nature of the environment, economy and people. Crop failures, farm bankruptcies, high food costs...
...sponsors formally approve its terms, a process that will probably extend well into next year. Even so, many environmentalists oppose any thought of disturbing the frigid region. The treaty "is a sellout of the environment to mining interests," charged Kelly Rigg, Antarctica campaign director of Greenpeace International, an environmental group that operates the only independent research station on the continent. Greenpeace, which plans to lobby against treaty approval in several countries, wants the continent to remain an international wildlife park...
Every year six tons of chlorinated hydrocarbons, 11,500 tons of heavy metals and 1.5 million tons of nitrogen from fertilizers are deposited in the North Sea by rivers and acid rain. An additional 250,000 tons of liquid chemical waste are dumped annually from West German ships into the...
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In its five-page report, titled "The Ideal of the Harvard House System," the SCA based its quota recommendation on Lowell's original conception of the house system. Lowell saw the houses as a means to preserve the diversity of the College in smaller residential units while improving students' academic...