Word: pacificism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though many of the world's fisheries are ostensibly managed on a sustainable basis, important species are in danger. Among them: bluefin tuna, cod and haddock in the Atlantic; certain varieties of grouper and snapper in the Gulf of Mexico; and sardines and anchovies in the Pacific. The United Nations...
Highly melodic despite all its doomsday undertones, Earth and Sun and Moon remains infectiously listenable. This is Mad Max music you can dance to. Several cuts even hold out a flicker of hope. Bushfire predicts a "new day/ It's larger than life, darker than death/ We're gonna move...
In a decade of digging, Dillehay's team found an unparalleled array of artifacts, including not only stone tools and animal bones but also chunks of mastodon meat, wild potatoes, and seaweed and other plants that must have been imported from the Pacific coast, some 40 miles away. The archaeologists...
Several drugs which seem to reduce recurrences are also being tested. Hayes cites taconite, an anti-estrogen drug, which has been demonstrated to reduce the likelihood of recurrent tumors, and taxol, a drug derived from Pacific yew trees which has been approved by the FDA for treatment of ovarian cancer...
"We were sitting on a tinderbox," said Marsha Choo, who serves as a mediator between the Black and Korean communities as Los Angeles program director for the Asian Pacific American Dispute Resolution Center. "There aren't institutions in place that allow people to dialogue about race relations."