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...convene in Rio de Janeiro, replete with 100 heads of state and a cast of tens of thousands. Some would assert that just having the meeting represents progress, but there is every reason to wish for and expect more. Fortunately, it is no longer possible that it will be naught but an environmental Woodstock or an enormous black hole for diplomatic talent and energy. With a last-minute flurry of negotiation possible, it is as yet unclear how much progress will be made with earth's daunting problems...
...followed: the exposing of personal foibles for public inspection. Lord Byron became a celebrity because of his poetry and a reprobate and rogue thanks to allegations about his sexual relations with his half sister. Charles Dickens tried to disguise his relationship with the young actress Ellen Ternan, all for naught, since suspicions about its true nature flourished then and ever since. Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians wickedly and fastidiously punctured an era of hypocrisy, and the writings of Sigmund Freud unleashed the psychological deluge...
...estimated 210 million acres (85 million hectares) of tropical forests have been burned, cut or flooded in the five years since T.F.A.P. was conceived. It is not too late for the world to act to save these intricate green engines of life, but efforts to help will come to naught if the rich nations do not first absorb the failings of the world's most ambitious environmental program to date...
...went for naught when--moments before Shyjan/Mike Zimmerman were to tie the match with a three-set thriller--the Dawgs' Ivan Baron/Patricio Arnold beat Marshall Burroughs/John Tolmie to clinch the match...
Poor, deluded souls, they dwell in a world of sunshine and light from which they can never escape. Ignore them, if you can. In the end, all their soothing words of wisdom will come to naught for a very simple reason. The Harvard that you will attend is not the same Harvard that they attend...