Word: home
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Wilkes cited a study by the National Academy of Sciences that found that at least 50 million acres of rainforest a year are lost--an area the size of England, Wales and Scotland combined. These areas are home to about half the five to 10 million plant and animal species on the globe. Unless action is taken, the report says, by the year 2000 one-fifth of the remaining rainforest will disappear, destroying about half-a-million species...
Imaginative camera work enhances Benedek's comic vision. The camera looks down from a high angle at the Spectors' home preparations for an artificial insemination attempt, lending the couple's futile but exhaustive efforts an air of absurdity. In another scene the camera stays stationary as Linda moves from room to room, rather than following her. With this kind of cinematography, Immediate Family merely observes human foibles rather than draws attention to them...
There's no place like home...
...Boston College men's soccer team raised its home record to 7-0 this season by defeating Harvard, 3-1, last night at Alumni Stadium...
Beset by television and the proliferation of news pictures, photojournalism renewed itself by bringing a more personal vision -- and sometimes a darker one -- to an era of accelerating events at home and abroad...