Word: mayes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Third World spokesmen may simply be trying to deflect the criticism they deserve, but they have a point: the U.S.'s actions tend to undermine its words. The U.S. is the biggest culprit in the buildup of gases that threaten to disrupt the global climate. Princeton University's Center for Energy and Environmental Studies has concluded that by using existing technologies, such as more energy-efficient automobiles and manufacturing methods, the U.S. could reduce its CO2 output 40% over 40 years. That action alone would take more greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere than a total shutdown of industry...
...urging the U.S. to press the commission to adopt a new system to take account of activities that harm the environment and thus to encourage policies that will save it. The opportunity will not arise again until the year 2010. By then, according to nature's own accounting, mankind may be environmentally bankrupt...
...would subject the western Amazon to more of the slash-and-burn land clearing that has already devastated much of the rain forest's eastern regions. The torching releases into the air tons of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases that are responsible for the greenhouse effect, which may cause global warming...
Cech also found that RNA can copy itself, suggesting that the first living organisms may not have depended solely on DNA, the principal carrier of hereditary information in plants, animals and bacteria. "Now that we know that RNA can both carry genetic information and serve as a catalyst," Cech wrote last year, "it seems possible that it was the key molecule at the origin of life...
...first published. "They're clearing up the backlog," says Harvard economist Zvi Griliches, who hailed this year's choice. "They haven't got to the point of recognizing something interesting that happened in the past five years." But when such awards are finally made, the work of the winners may show the influence of the feisty and reclusive Haavelmo...