Word: fractionals
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...time, the last hunter-gatherers in Asia. Once masters of a seemingly endless rain forest that covers Borneo, almost all of the 9,000 Penan have given up the struggle against what must once have seemed a ludicrous impossibility: that loggers would sweep through all but a tiny fraction of Sarawak's forests, polluting rivers, driving animals away and bulldozing the trees and plants that for centuries have served as the Penan's medicine cabinet, toolbox and larder. There are barely 200 fully nomadic Penan left: small groups of two or three families who refuse to build permanent settlements, cultivate...
...Democrats are going to point to the administration's refusal to continue funding a program to decommission Russian nuclear warheads which may fall into the wrong hands as a sign of misplaced priorities by the Bush administration. After all, the program costs a tiny fraction of the budget for missile defense...
...sequence the 3.1 billion chemical "letters" that make up human DNA, the harder task may be to figure out what they mean. Trying to determine what's going on in a particular cell--which contains the entire complement of 30,000 or so genes but uses only a small fraction of them--is like watching a full-length movie a few pixels at a time...
...notes in Diversity that the 1.5 million species named so far by scientists represent only a tiny fraction of the tens of millions that may be out there. Wilson's prediction that 30% to 50% of all species would be extinct by the middle of the 21st century was meant to provoke--and it did. Critics rejected the estimate as another one of his flamboyant speculations. But subsequent research has supported it. From the perspective of the biodiversity scientist, virtually all the signs...
...very lucky. The world's media focused on the crowds outside the Russian White House, where he was holed up. The atmosphere there was indeed inspiring -thousands of people prepared to shield with their bodies their last hope for change. Yet these many thousand people were a tiny fraction of the city's population, And there were few such demonstrations in other cities and towns across the USSR. Most people were sitting and waiting. Would the military have moved against the White House if someone had given the order? Some would have, I think. Not all, but enough to break...