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Further, to call Bonfire an "excessive, unnecessary waste of natural resources" is far from correct as well. Alumni or citizens of College Station usually give up part of their land that they want to be deforested, and so these trees would have been cleared anyway. As for the burning of a 55 foot high stack of logs, the ecological damage is a tiny fraction of the damage done in a few hours by the refineries and chemical companies along the South coast of Texas, and I do not think we should get rid of those either...
...Vegas is my home away from home away from school. I had been there 16 times--and my family decided to have a 17th go this Thanksgiving at the Land of 92 Percent Returns. No, no, we aren't high rollers and we don't own stock in Caesar's Palace. But, we were one of the few to first discover the Las Vegas miracle back in 1992 when all the renovation began to transform a pop culture embarrassment into a pop culture extravaganza. Seven years later, it's the most popular vacation destination in the world. The obvious question...
...fish for striped bass on the bottom," Billy explained. "I fish off Hampton Beach in New Hampshire, or off to the side of the JFK building here in Boston. What excites me is fighting for 15 or 20 minutes to land a 35 or 40 pounder, like I have done. Once I get them, though, I let them go. I'm not a killer. My family doesn't eat fish anyway. I take a picture, instead. I've got quite a selection of pictures." Billy hunts less successfully than he fishes. "I hunt sea duck," he said...
...most Americans be rejoicing that their PalmPilots didn't erase 700 names in their address books and that air-traffic-control computers at J.F.K. didn't instruct planes to land in Central Park...
...21st century--particularly in light of Malthus' 18th century theory that population growth will overpower the planet's ability to sustain itself. Scientific inventions and discoveries ameliorate the problem but not enough to prevent global disaster. Widespread demand for food and manufactured products has contaminated our food chain, arable land and water sources, as well as the air we breathe. We must all begin to cope with the results of urban sprawl and help prevent the destruction of Earth's ecological balance and the life of our planet. FAY SMITH Richardson, Texas...