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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...
...occurrence compared with the far- reaching, perhaps irreversible processes that were unfolding around the world. The earth's population, now 5.2 billion, rose in 1989 an estimated 87.5 million, maintaining a growth rate that could double the number of human beings by the year 2025. Deforestation and burning of fossil fuels spewed at least 19 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, aggravating the global warming process that could cause the average worldwide temperature to rise as much as 4.5 degrees C (8 degrees F) within the next 60 years. Another 11.3 million hectares (28 million acres) of tropical...
...industry maintains that mink, which account for 75% of U.S. fur coats, are treated humanely and killed painlessly. Fur, the industry points out, is a natural fabric whose production does not pollute the environment or use fossil fuels, as does the creation of acrylic fibers. Nonetheless, U.S. fur sales have remained stagnant -- at an annual level of about $1.8 billion -- over the past three years; during the Christmas season, many department stores are slashing prices to move their furs. To meet the animal-rights threat, the Fur Information Council of America last month launched an ad campaign stressing freedom...