Word: owned
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If the U.S., for example, asks others not to cut their forests, then it will have to be more judicious about cutting its own. If Americans wish to stem the supply of hardwoods from the fragile jungle or furs from endangered species, then they will have to stem demand for...
In addition to launching an emergency campaign of debt relief, the advanced nations of the North must make available to the desperate nations of the South efficient new technologies that spare the environment while encouraging economic growth. Fortunately, help for the South should not mean only sacrifice in the North...
In a series of experiments begun in the mid-'70s at the University of California at San Francisco, Bishop and Varmus resolved a spirited debate over oncogenes -- the genes, or units of heredity, that cause cancer. Researchers had previously theorized that cancer genes were separate entities, unrelated to the healthy...
Van Norman complains that his own land is not safe. Exploration crews have combed his family's 40,000-acre spread. Where the Van Normans hold only surface rights, the crews have staked white plastic plumbing pipes as claim to the minerals below. Van Norman sneeringly refers to the claim...
But polls quickly showed that more than 60% of Floridians opposed further restrictions and that only 24% would vote for Martinez again. Even members of his own party, worried that an antiabortion label would hurt Republicans among suburban and women voters, began denouncing the special session as a costly waste...