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...Fast-forward 30 years, however, and the situation has changed. The mass famines that Erhlich and others prophesized never happened, and while population growth has continued - an estimated 6.8 billion people now live on Earth - and on the whole, the world is better off today than it has ever been. A Green Revolution helped a growing planet feed itself, while the forces of globalization helped lift hundreds of millions in the developing world out of poverty, even as population continued to rise. As the years passed, overpopulation has dropped from the vocabulary of most environmentalists, partially due to the controversies...
...they were able to finish their season, it was 8:19, it was dark, and it was seven hours after they had begun their rounds.The greens gave Harvard a lot of trouble throughout the tournament. The Bermuda grass and the heat combined to make the greens incredibly firm and fast, something that the team does not see back East.The Crimson, though, was able to take the unfamiliarity in stride.“Getting to go to a completely different part of the country and see the other competition,” Hazlett said. “That?...
...winning the doubles point in Ivy League play, and against challenging competition in the NCAA, losing it had a steep price, giving Harvard virtually no room for error and placing a premium on early wins to even the score.Thankfully for the Crimson, Chijoff-Evans’ win was a fast 6-2, 6-2 trouncing—a lopsided outcome that is beginning to become a routine for the aggressive-playing freshman. He was the second singles player off the court.The first off the court was Ermakov, who, playing at less than full strength because of an injury, lost...
...Phyu Aung, a 14-year-old girl, recalls her house suddenly floating away in what locals estimate was a twelve-foot wave. She slipped out a window and grabbed onto a coconut palm. By mid-morning the next day, the water had washed away her clothing but she held fast to the tree. "The people who held on to trees survived," she says, showing the oozing abrasion on her arm from her ordeal. "Those who didn't, died...
...three days afterwards the Pyapon River was clogged with bodies. Like hundreds of other delta villages, Myinkakon had few sturdy buildings to shelter in and no higher ground to flee to. And anyway, says Myint Swe, there was no way to outrun the storm surge, a wall of fast-moving water taller than the tallest man, which raced out of the darkness without warning and swept away tens of thousands of lives across the low-lying region...