Word: planet
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...Most of the material is obviously misidentification of fairly ordinary objects: aircraft lights, meteorites, the planet Venus," says Nick Pope, a former MoD employee who, as head of the ministry's UFO program for three years in the early 1990s, is well acquainted with these early files. But the longer Pope spent studying the data, the more he came to believe that some UFO sightings really can't be explained by terrestrial activity - a conclusion that earned him a reputation as "Britain's Fox Mulder." "You've got to really drill down into it to get the good stuff...
...Democratic Party currently lacks a defined, cohesive platform, Hodes remained optimistic about the Democrats’ potential to improve the current situation. He outlined a series of issues he said he believed all Democrats could rally around. “We stand for real security, healthy families, a sustainable planet, and opportunity for all—not just those at the top,” he said. Before Hodes began his speech, the club’s president, Jarret A. Zafran ’09, presented the Congressman with the Harvard College Democrats Leader of the Year Award. Zafran then...
...thirst of this drought-plagued city. Other proposals, such as a controversial plan to divert water from the Ebro river, have pitted the Catalan capital against farmers and other cities, in a mild foretaste of the water-wars that some have darkly predicted will afflict major regions of the planet in the coming years...
...pendulum is shifting back. The sudden spike in both food and fuel prices is raising concerns that we may not be able to grow forever, that even with the best technological innovation, the planet may have limits. It's becoming increasingly clear that if we can't curb carbon emissions in a world of 6.8 billion, it may be impossible to do when there are 9 billion of us. And while population growth has slowed drastically in many countries in Western Europe and in Japan, where women are having fewer and fewer babies, it's still rising in much...
...better way to correct past [environmental] errors than to turn the creative energies of the free market in the other direction?" McCain said Tuesday. "In all its power, the profit motive will suddenly begin to shift and point the other way toward cleaner fuels, wiser ways and a healthier planet...