Word: planet
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TITLE: SHAMPOO PLANET...
...There will be one world government ruling the entire planet...
...hastened the already simmering Russian Revolution and the founding of the Soviet Union and, hence, that protracted standoff between vast swatches of the planet that came to be called the cold war. It foretold the beginning of the end of European overseas expansion. And the U.S., against many of its instincts, became a superpower...
...stepfathers of his extended family, remained behind on a distant world which Singh could never revisit. Decades in space -- and neglect of the mandatory zero-G exercises -- had so weakened him that he could now walk only on the Moon and Mars. Gravity had exiled him from the planet of his birth...
...worst occurs, countless millions will become environmental refugees, swamping the nations that tried to conserve their soil, water and forests. The great-grandchildren of today's young people would have to share the planet with only a ragged cohort of adaptable species dominated by rats, cockroaches, weeds, microbes. The world in which they survived would consist largely of deserts, patches of tropical forests, eroded mountains, dead coral reefs and barren oceans, all buffeted by extremes of weather...