Word: globe
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What a wonderful word, Europhoria. Western Europe seems to have rediscovered the political will to advance the stalled process of economic integration and further the old dream of Continental unity. In a bold venture eyed warily by the rest of the globe, the twelve members of the European Community* have pledged to unite their markets by Dec. 31, 1992, creating the world's largest market and trading bloc. West Europeans have few illusions about their ability to create a United States of Europe. Even within individual countries, regional rivalries are still pronounced, and the Continent's cultural diversity will continue...
Scientists are concerned that the destruction of the Amazon could lead to climatic chaos. Because of the huge volume of clouds it generates, the Amazon system plays a major role in the way the sun's heat is distributed around the globe. Any disturbance of this process could produce far-reaching, unpredictable effects. Moreover, the Amazon region stores at least 75 billion tons of carbon in its trees, which when burned spew carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Since the air is already dangerously overburdened by carbon dioxide from the cars and factories of industrial nations, the torching of the Amazon...
Many people thought Wimbledon should be Evert's last bow. But after half her life encircling the globe on the tour, Evert wanted to exit at home, with the Stars and Stripes aflutter. She foretold an eventual defeat, if not disaster. Yet from the moment she took the court in the opening round, dressed in royal purple, her departure, like all that had gone before it, was triumph, triumph...
...concrete tubs of thawing penguins. Instead the terrain is uncannily authentic, and animals are free to behave like, well, animals, not inmates. Here is a Himalayan highland full of red pandas, there a subtropical jungle where it rains indoors, eleven times a day. The effect is of an entire globe miraculously concentrated, the wild kingdom contained in downtown Chicago or the North Bronx. As American zoos are renovated and redesigned -- at a cost of more than a billion dollars since 1980 -- hosts of once jaded visitors, some even without children, are flooding through the gates. "In the past 15 years...
...takes place in roughly the same universe as Lodge's prior two novels: the imaginary campus of Rummidge University in England. But unlike the two earlier works, which ranged over the entire globe, Nice Work confines itself almost entirely to the city of Rummidge, which, as the author explains, "occupies, for the purposes of fiction, the space where Birmingham is to be found on maps of the so-called real world...