Word: huges
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PARTING THE WATERS by Taylor Branch. The magisterial first of two projected volumes devoted to the U.S. civil rights movement takes Martin Luther King Jr. -- and a huge supporting cast -- through boycotts, sit-ins and marches...
...lush territory south of the Amazon, there was hardly a break in the canopy of 200-ft.-tall trees, and virtually every acre was alive with the cacophony of all kinds of insects, birds and monkeys. Then, beginning in the 1970s, came the swarms of settlers, slashing and burning huge swaths through the forest to create roads, towns and fields. They came to enjoy a promised land, but they have merely produced a network of devastation. The soil that supported a rich rain forest is not well suited to corn and other crops, and most of the newcomers...
...state? According to computer projections, the accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere could drive up the planet's average temperature 3 degrees F to 9 degrees F by the middle of the next century. That could cause the oceans to rise by several feet, flooding coastal areas and ruining huge tracts of farmland through salinization. Changing weather patterns could make huge areas infertile or uninhabitable, touching off refugee movements unprecedented in history...
...extinctions. The most spectacular example is the dying off of the great dinosaurs during the Cretaceous period (136 million to 65 million years ago). No one knows exactly what killed the dinosaurs, although a radical change in environmental conditions seems a likely answer. One popular theory is that a huge meteor crashed to earth and kicked up such vast clouds of dust that sunlight was obscured and plants destroyed. Result: the dinosaurs starved to death...
...fight the criminal charges, he can afford the legal bills. His net worth is estimated at more than $500 million. Even so, the man who revolutionized the money markets of the roaring '80s could wind up doing prison time in the '90s. Milken could also be slapped with a huge fine or be banned from working in the securities industry. For one who has devoted his life to building and controlling an unprecedented financing empire, that prospect may be the most chilling...