Word: growths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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PROTECTING THE FORESTS Your article on the need to preserve the world's wooded areas [HEROES FOR THE PLANET: FORESTS, Dec. 14] justifiably charged timber interests, population growth and suburban sprawl with reckless forest destruction. However, you should have included the illegal drug trade as one of the culprits. For years drug cultivators have claimed hundreds of thousands of acres of forest. Environmental organizations should adopt rigorous antidrug policies that compel government accountability and stem lethal drug cultivation. F. ANDY MESSING JR. Executive Director National Defense Council Foundation Alexandria...
Over the last few years, Harvard's growth hasoccasionally riled its neighbors in the Bostonarea. In June 1997, the University announced ithad secretly purchased 52.6 acres in the Allstonarea of Boston over the past eight years withoutdisclosing its identity. The University made thepurchases anonymously because it feared sellerswould hold out for higher prices if they knew theywere dealing with Harvard...
Miller says the end of overlap was not the sole reason for the wave of changes. Endowment growth and a national belief that college costs excessively burdened the middle class helped push the overhauls...
...this untapped potential could be a terrific boon to medicine. Most diseases involve the death of healthy cells--brain cells in Alzheimer's, cardiac cells in heart disease, pancreatic cells in diabetes, to name a few. If doctors could isolate stem cells, then direct their growth, they might be able to furnish patients with healthy replacement tissue...
Forget the freakish growth spurts of Amazon.com and Ebay -? the weirdest Internet stock of the moment is Broadcast.com. Even as a newborn the stock showed promise, setting a record for the biggest single-day gain of an IPO when it went public last July. When some of the froth settled back then, the CEO confidently said that he wanted the people who bought at the top on the first day to feel that they'd made a great investment. Boy, did they. MORE...