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While the sharks rule the depths and mankind clings precariously to the surface, the albatross owns the air above the sea. In the mid-1990s, when scientists first started tagging albatrosses for tracking via satellite, they discovered something astonishing: albatrosses spend 95% of their lives over the ocean, and most of that flying. Albatrosses have the longest wingspan on earth, and they can stay aloft continuously for years, dozing on the wing. In Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival--ignore the sappy subtitle--Carl Safina follows a single bird as it roams the globe gathering food...
...when the tectonic shudders of the Lisbon earthquake in 1755 caused church bells to ring as far away as England, and certainly after 1945, when for the first time human beings harnessed the power to bring about their total destruction, not an act of God, but an act of mankind...
...shameless love for all the scoundrels who schemed to get rich, kill the cuckolded husband, exploit the misery of a man trapped in a cave, beat a murder rap, shin up the corporate ladder, bamboozle an insurance company or steal a nice guy's girl. For Wilder, mankind was divided not into the haves and have-nots but into the haves and let's-gets. He celebrated the ugly American: brash men on the make, women on the take. What knaves these mortals be! How smart they are, though not as smart as they think...
...Summers, who served as the moderator for the event entitled “Healthier or Wealthier: Which Comes First in the New Global Era?,” set the tone by saying that “global health is as morally and practically pressing as any other question facing mankind...
...them open their ears and listen. I want to tell people that they really have to watch out, that AIDS is serious. If people don't start taking drastic steps for prevention, then the whole continent will be affected. I guess that will be bye-bye to mankind...