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...says Denis Hayes, chairman of Earth Day 2000. Clinton may have some regrets. "There is much more to be done in the years ahead," he said last week at the National Geographic Society, when announcing the Hawaii preserve. "Many, many important ecosystems are disappearing just as we begin to grasp their unique significance...
...WYCLEF JEAN The Ecleftic: 2 Sides II a Book (Columbia). While other hip-hoppers just lay tracks, Wyclef writes songs. No topic, from romance to the Amadou Diallo killing, is beyond his range, and no musical style, from reggae to country, is beyond his grasp. Political, comical, unpredictable--Wyclef is the most inventive male performer...
...public service dimension of his past. Realizing that many households would rather have George over for dinner, Al attempted to define himself as the family man. He told us that he was a grandfather as often as he spoke of saving Social Security. George struggled to show a grasp of the issues whereas Al struggled to show that he loved people. Al should have stuck to the basics. He spent 16 years in Congress, eight as a representative and eight as a senator. While George was exacerbating the greenhouse effect with his oil and gas company...
...Crimson host Northeastern on Saturday at Lavietes Pavilion, and must get a win against the Huskies to salvage a season quickly slipping from its grasp...
...words have Latin roots.) Latin is an almost purely phonetic language. There are no silent letters, and each letter represents a single sound. That makes it useful in teaching reading. And once kids master the grammatical structure of Latin--which is simple, logical and consistent--they will more easily grasp the many grammatical exceptions in English...