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Another threat comes from man-made fertilizers, which wash off fields into streams and eventually into the ocean. This spurs the harmful overgrowth of algae and the spread of toxic microbes that can kill fish and cause human health problems, such as liver and kidney ills and amnesia. Billions of fish died along the Middle and Southern Atlantic coast in recent years because of suspected pollution from upstream sources. On a tour of the land area around Big Sur, my guide from the California Coastal Commission, Lee Otter (yes), noted as a caution and as a fact that "something always...
...tongue in cheek, but many newly arrived Californians take less satirical slurs to heart. "Our very first day the Welcome Wagon lady called on us and told us that people here think Californians fail to recycle, pollute the air, ruin natural resources, litter, and bring smog, congestion and overgrowth," a transplanted housewife recalls. "Some welcome...
Harvard's new Core Curriculum is the product of a few years of careful and wide-ranging study of Harvard's curriculum and General Education program--the first major such re-evaluation since 1945. Prompted by complaints about Gen Ed's intellectual shoddiness and overgrowth, Dean Rosovsky began the re-examination of Harvard's undergraduate curriculum...
...less Heinrich, lieber Heinrich it is an honor when they do your work, wherever, whenever. As for however, why that McBain youth meant no harm in adapting your Master Builder. He only meant, no doubt, to give the idiom a more modern ring, and to snip away that overgrowth of symbols. There are such a lot of symbols in the play, Heinrich...
...become anathema to anti-war groups because of its production of napalm. The substance is intended to burn out jungle overgrowth, but it falls all too often on Vietnamese civilians. Napalm--and the company that makes it--have become symbolic of a war that tries to destroy communism by bombing people...