Word: fossilizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...vowed to plant a billion trees, which would absorb CO2 from the air. But Administration officials admit that Bush advanced most of the measures for reasons other than reducing global warming. And environmentalists argue that the Government should do much more to discourage the burning of fossil fuels. Among the possibilities: raise the gasoline tax or use financial incentives to encourage people to buy smaller, more efficient cars...
Honolulu review. Modes of transport that rely on fossil fuel are banned from the Low Energy Parade. Participants must bring a vehicle run by solar energy, electricity or methane gas. Otherwise, a bicycle or foot power will do nicely...
...topic of the debate was the reduction of fossil fuel consumption by non-military users. Harvard's battle plan in the final debate was to argue that consumption could be reduced through the construction of nuclear power plants, according to second-team member Matthew D. Schnall...
...heart of the right-wingers' argument is their lingering hope that, as other generations believed, our species was singled out for a special creation in God's own image. They continue to insist that there are no transitional forms in the fossil record, no "missing links," though the Olduvai Gorge, along with other African sites, provides a procession of evolving hominids, mute but eloquent witnesses to our Darwinian past, including those children of the dawn, the australopithecines, the little "southern apes" who walked like...