Word: flows
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During the past several years, Harvard has led the nation's universities in opposing what it views as harmful restrictions on the free flow of information that were introduced by the Reagan Administration. Since 1985, Shattuck has released two other statements criticizing the government's tight controls over the release of scientific data...
...while leaving the rest of the rooms at an energy-saving 65 degrees. Or a family can order the air conditioning turned off while they are out of town and restarted three hours before they are due home. Once instructions have been recorded, the system automatically controls the flow of hot and cold air by means of motorized dampers installed in the ductwork behind the walls...
Halting the assault on biodiversity will not be easy, but there are many actions that governments can take. First, they should develop and support local scientific institutions that train professionals in conservation techniques. More money should flow into educational programs that alert people to the irreversible consequences of a loss of genetic diversity. An international, environmental version of the Peace Corps could spread conservation expertise to the Third World...
...flow of CO2 on earth was caused by only natural processes until less than 200 years ago. With the arrival of the Industrial Revolution in the early 1800s, man suddenly threw a new factor into the climatic equation. Carbon dioxide is released in large quantities when wood and such fossil fuels as coal, oil and natural gas are burned. As society industrialized, coal- burning factories began releasing CO2 faster than plants and oceans, which absorb the gas, could handle it. In the early 1900s, people began burning oil and gas at prodigious rates. And increasing population led to the widespread...
...would be to construct levees and dikes. The Netherlands, after all, has flourished more than 12 ft. below sea level for hundreds of years. Its newest bulwark is a 5.6-mile dam made up of 131-ft. steel locks that remain open during normal conditions, to preserve the tidal flow that feeds the rich local sea life, but can be closed when rough weather threatens. Venice is beginning to put into place a 1.2-mile flexible seawall that would protect its treasured landmarks against Adriatic storms without doing ecological damage to the city's lagoon...