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...danger is vastly greater, though, for the billions of creatures that inhabit the Persian Gulf. The gulf waters, shores and islands are dotted with coral reefs, mangrove swamps and beds of sea grass and algae, brimming with birds, sea turtles, fish and marine mammals. This complex ecosystem, already pushed to the limits of survival by years of pollution, is now threatened with total collapse by the inexorable spread of the smothering, toxic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Dead Sea in the Making | 2/11/1991 | See Source »

THERE IS LITTLE that can be done about this except abdicate, abjure, ask to be excused--from certain dialogues, communities, and societies, from the sheltering "we"s that we inhabit, that constitute our friends, families and countries. It is a request that I am making, that I don't even expect to be granted...

Author: By J.d. Connor, | Title: A Cowardice Manifesto | 2/9/1991 | See Source »

Written with Sean Kelley and Sarah Durkee under the aegis of the American Sequel Society, this book mocks contemporary society's penchant for ridiculous follow-ups. More than 1,000,000 possible sequels inhabit these pages, most of them creations of the "Make Your Own Sequel" game given at the book's end. The more extended treatments may be divided into two categories: quick laughs and substantial satires...

Author: By Adam E. Pachter, | Title: Once Again: A Book of Sequels | 2/8/1991 | See Source »

Ruckdeschel, Ventura and Loncar inhabit the lower end of the food chain that fed Michael Milken and a handful of others hundreds of millions of dollars in personal profits during the leveraged-buyout binge of the '80s. Now the continuing collapse of the junk-bond market is starving more than 270,000 First Investors clients, many of whom were lured in by deceptive tactics like those used by Ventura and Loncar. Customer losses nationwide could top $500 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At The End of Milken's Junk-Food Chain | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

...built in Texas. The controversial project will cost at least $8 billion, but the Nobel winners support it. Like the devices they used in their work, says Kendall, the SSC "represents the price of the restless curiosity of the human race to understand the physical universe we inhabit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Physics: Quark Hunters | 10/29/1990 | See Source »

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