Word: habitat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fickle muse; anyone can lose the knack. But Jackson lost touch. Not as a performer -- his falsetto and his footwork still dazzle -- but with his audience. His career went stratospheric, and he went extraterrestrial. He seemed like one of the exotic animals he keeps in his backyard habitat. For some imaginary Madame Tussaud's, he transformed himself into his own waxed, blanched figure...
Much of Wilson's expertise derives from his award-winning studies of life on islands where the number of species increases or decreases with the size of habitat. This finding is less obvious than it sounds and has big consequences for large landmasses where biological diversity is rapidly losing out to development and pollution. Wilson estimates that 10,000 species are destroyed each year, a rate that is increasing as the world's population grows toward 10 billion people by the middle of the next century...
...Even though a majority of Westerners favor the return of wolves, formidable opposition comes from local ranchers and hunting outfitters who fear that the predators will kill livestock and deplete game and that tight restrictions will be placed on land use as a way of protecting the animal's habitat. The ranchers see the wolf as their own version of the spotted...
Weber attributed the declining wolf population in the U.S. to the practices of ranchers, not loss of habitat or lack of food...
...false choice to say you can't have a strong environment and a strong economy. I think you can have both. Our emphasis, our approach -- just like we dealt with the spotted owl, you send legislation to the | Congress that will preserve the spotted owl in its natural habitat and preserve 17,000 jobs. We have both, but unfortunately, the Democratic Congress is only interested in preserving the owl. The owl is important, but so are jobs. ((The Democrats)) are the ones that are basically saying we can only have a strong environment, and we can't have a strong...