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Frequent ice cream bashes raised student awareness of the problem by reminding them that they should conserve energy. Posting charts in dining halls and publishing results in The Crimson also spread the gospel, but did not attract nearly the interest of Rain Forest Crunch and Cherry Garcia ice cream...
Rage in Harlem with robin Givens, Forest Witiker and Gregory Hines...
...question at a time. Prairyerth is an old geological term for prairie soil. The westerly thinning-out of forest and the first broad stretches of prairie grass are what make Chase County a magical place for the author. Eastern travelers feel edgy here, Trogdon notices, and so do some natives: "The protection and sureties of the vertical woodland, walled like a home and enclosed like a refuge, are gone, and now the land . . . is a world of air, space, apparent emptiness, near nothingness," where wind blows steadily "as if out of the lungs of the universe...
...Maine has announced its intention to restore salmon and sturgeon to the Kennebec River by acquiring and breaching a 154-year-old dam. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has drawn up plans to regenerate wetlands killed off by flood- control projects. And in partnership with the Cook County Forest Preserve District, the Illinois Nature Conservancy has begun to resurrect thousands of hectares of prairie and woodlands. "We can be part of nature without wrecking it," asserts Steve Packard, the Illinois Conservancy's chief ecologist. "All we need is discipline, humility and knowledge...
...mortally wounded. In New Zealand, for instance, they have deemed efforts to restore destroyed habitats on the main islands a lost cause. Instead they are concentrating on saving relatively pristine areas such as the Mercury Islands, one of the last strongholds of the rare milk-tree forest...