Word: environmentalism
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By legalizing a form of marriage because it is no longer anathema to the majority, we acknowledge the fact that social taboos are the guiding principle of the modern definition of marriage. In this new legal environment, all candidate definitions are necessarily discriminatory toward some form of relationship. Otherwise, all...
"I'm not a gloom-and-doom guy - I'm an optimist. I think we do have time to turn this around, and I think that the kinds of things we're doing will certainly help." - On his thoughts on the environment (Grist.org, January 14, 2008)
Last semester, 45 elementary and junior high schools across Taiwan also promoted walking to school as a way to improve the environment and personal health. Taipei's Xinglong Elementary School had remarkable results: 87% of its 1000 students and 60 teachers now walk to school, and as a side benefit...
The rise in violence is also a quandary for Iraq's neighbors, which play reluctant host to the refugees. The exact number of refugees is hard to gauge, but the Iraqi government estimates there are 2 million. The majority of them live in Syria and Jordan, which are struggling with...
But over the past two weeks, fears over H1N1 have cooled considerably, as the virus has failed to spread easily outside North America and the number of deaths from the disease has remained low, leaving the WHO fending off critics who questioned whether the international agency overreacted. "We know that...