Word: impacting
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...lumber business is only one of many Japanese industries that have had far-reaching impact on the global environment. A combination of traditional crafts and consumer tastes for the exotic makes Japan the world's largest market for many threatened species and the products created from them. Over the years, elephants by the thousands have been slaughtered so that their ivory can be used, for example, in Japanese signature seals, and wedding ornaments are fashioned from the shells of endangered hawksbill turtles. Japanese fishermen have drawn impassioned criticism for their use of huge drift nets across vast expanses...
...unfair, but it indicates the rising anger toward the Japanese. Until recently, environmentalists focused most of their attention on the U.S. and Western Europe, which are far and away the biggest polluters in the free world. But as Japan has developed into a leading economic power, its impact on the global environment has come under more intense scrutiny. While * Japan has begun to clean up domestic pollution problems, it has not shown the same regard for nature outside the home islands...
...Sabah, the two Malaysian states on Borneo. On paper at least, Malaysia, a well-off country with a relatively small population (17.4 million), has a model plan for the "sustainable development" of its forests. The reality is that neither the overall plan nor specific regulations have had much impact, and logging operations continue essentially uncontrolled. "In theory everything is fine," says S.C. Chin, a Malaysian forestry expert. "But 20 years ago, Thailand and the Philippines said everything was fine too, and now they have largely been stripped...
Ironically enough, Matt's biggest impact on mylife was not teaching me about life an anupperclass student, but in helping me toappreciate being a first-year student. He hadtransferred to Harvard after one year at Columbia,and he always resented the fact that he could notshare in his classmates' reminiscences about theirfirst year--that he never lived in the Yard or atehis meals in the Union...
...guess I can only explain the impact thatstrange year had on me this way: Matt wastypically absorbed by the idea of these first-yearpieces, since he had never been able to writeabout his first-year experience at Harvard. Onewarm night, as we walked along the Charles, Mattturned to me and said, "This is going to be yourfirst-year piece...