Word: marshlands
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...importance of coastal areas in the complex interaction of the land, air and sea environments that make up the North American ecosystem. Coastal areas, for example, provide the habitat and food for thousands of species, many of which find their way to the dinner table. "An acre of marshland produces more protein than an acre of corn," says Edward Daly, chief of the wetlands division of the Connecticut department of agriculture and natural resources. "And," he adds, "it acts as a sponge. In rough weather, high water, a hurricane, the wetland reduces flood damage...
...guilt that even his Bordeaux landscape wore the aspect of sin, as expressed in the outburst of a character in his last novel, Maltaverne: "I cannot give up this land, this stream, the sky beneath the tops of the pine trees, those beloved giants, that scent of resin and marshland, which-am I crazy?-is the very odor of my despair...
...with very fast shots of factories while some important voice of the period urges the Indians to "accept the spirit of the American people." His speech is drowned out by machine sounds and there follow superimpositions of factories and barbed wire, of the trains that shuttled plains tribes to marshland, over close-ups of aged Indian faces. One man appears to be dying, or trying to sleep, turning his head back and forth over the industrialized landscape; the image exudes an eery sense of ancestors' graves plowed under, of the young dead and the old too infirm to protest. Gershfield...
...what the crowds had come to witness. Jules Verne had the vision more than a century ago. When Western man finally launched himself into space, he foresaw, it would be from Florida's midsection. Men with less foresight saw only a forbidding stretch of sand, scrub and fetid marshland that was bypassed even during the land boom of the 1920s. In the 1950s, recalls Space Reporter Al Volker of the Miami News, the space program was so hushed up that the only way to find out that a shot had taken place was to have a Cocoa Beach bartender...
...them is to think big, and Co-Op City's sponsor-the United Housing Foundation, a nonprofit group organized by 40 labor unions-conceived the $294 million project on a monumental scale. When it is completed in 1971, Co-Op City will cover 300 acres of filled marshland, with 35 apartment towers, from 24 to 33 stories in height, eight block-square parking garages, six schools, several shopping centers, 236 townhouses, and assorted service buildings-an instant city...