Word: eventers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conference will cost college students approximately $30, said Huhne. "Any money we make will go towards next year's conference," he added. Eggleston said the club is seeking corporate sponsors for the event, which will probably cost about...
Whether or not that theory is correct, an event of no less magnitude is taking place at this very moment, but this time its agent is man. The wholesale burning and cutting of forests in Brazil and other countries, as one major example, are destroying irreplaceable species every day. Says Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson: "The extinctions ongoing worldwide promise to be at least as great as the mass extinction that occurred at the end of the age of dinosaurs...
...Environment Conference was an extraordinary event, set in appropriately pristine surroundings: the foothills of Boulder, where the Great Plains meet the Rocky Mountains. For three days in November, 26 TIME journalists and 33 experts engaged in an interchange of ideas that was as freewheeling as it was productive. The meetings took place at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, whose staff helped plan the agenda. The Soviets were particularly open in what they revealed both about their country's environmental woes and on a personal level. At one point Thompson challenged Morgun to a game of eight ball...
...Durand's narrative, and J. Maxwell Brownjohn's translation, cold feet are "like blocks of ice." A bashed villain goes "out like a light." A neighborhood is "as silent as the grave." An event happens "in a flash." Matters are as clear "as daylight." If the author were competing with John le Carre, these bromides might undo his tale...
...began by touting condoms -- now commonly called mechais in Thailand. "Wherever there was a crowd, we would be there handing them out," says Mechai. "Movie theaters, traffic jams -- we tried to turn every event into a family-planning session." With humor and showmanship, Mechai has judged condom-blowing contests and has shown how to use condoms as tourniquets. Each New Year's Eve, the P.D.A. gives traffic police boxes of prophylactics to distribute in a "cops and rubbers" program...