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Clark said the project aimed to “create for the nation a set of macro-indicators for the state of the ecosystem” similar to the information on unemployment and productivity that exists for the national economy. The information is designed to help policy-makers make informed decisions about the environment...

Author: By Joan A. Tom, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Experts Assess Globe’s Health | 9/26/2002 | See Source »

...trend? Perry thinks that may be exactly what we're witnessing, but Robert Cottrol isn't so sure. Cottrol who is professor of law at the George Washington University School of Law in Washington , D.C., specializes in criminal law and legal history. He urges caution when trying to discern macro-movements within the Court. "We can certainly distinguish three Justices - Breyer, Stevens and Ginsburg - who are deeply skeptical toward the death penalty," says Cotttrol. "But beyond that, the other six Justices vary in accordance with the legal issues raised by specific cases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Supreme Court: Two Rules for Schools | 6/27/2002 | See Source »

Science research is transforming “from an effort that is largely reductionist in focusing on individual reactions within individual cells, to a process that is far more systemic...from a micro process to a macro understanding,” Summers explains...

Author: By David H. Gellis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Summers Dreams of Boston as Biotech Center | 3/5/2002 | See Source »

Concentration: Social studies—this major can best account for the Greek, Iranian and macro textbooks...

Author: By Deborah B. Doroshow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dorm Room Dialogue | 2/21/2002 | See Source »

...casualties--was dangerously misguided. "It is increasingly clear," she wrote in her 1999 book, The Ultimate Terrorists, "that not all terrorists feel that way." In the book, which begins with a scenario in which the Empire State Building is destroyed by a homemade nuclear bomb, she coined the term macro-terrorism to describe terrorist acts that result in mass casualties. On Sept. 11 macroterrorism became a reality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thinkers: TERRORISM: Listening To The Enemy | 12/17/2001 | See Source »

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