Word: planetful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last one. Today, millions of transistors, each costing far less than a staple, can be etched on wafers of silicon. On these microchips, all the world's information and entertainment can be stored in digital form, processed and zapped to every nook of a networked planet. And in 1997, as the U.S. completed nearly seven years of growth, the microchip has become the dynamo of a new economy marked by low unemployment, negligible inflation and a rationally exuberant stock market...
...same time, the Clinton Administration faced pressure from environmentalists and foreign governments that argued that as the greatest greenhouse-gas emitter on the planet, the U.S. should take the lead in cutting back--a position the President himself took seriously. In the end, Clinton split the difference. Chief U.S. negotiator Stuart Eizenstat, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs, arrived in Kyoto with a proposal to cut emissions back to 1990 levels, no lower, between...
...wish the McCaugheys the best of everything for their family. Unfortunately, their children may face adulthood in a world fraught with ecological disaster because of overpopulation. There are so many humans that we are crowding out other species and changing the biosphere of the planet. It is time we all lived responsibly, with our children's future in mind. Otherwise, there may not be much of a world for our children or the septuplets to enjoy. LARRY MURPHY Provincetown, Mass...
...eggs at a time without benefit of Frankensteinian science--just pituitary, brain and gonadal equipment. In sheer numbers, the toad puts us to shame. Isn't it high time we acknowledge that septuplets are the result of scientific technology run amuck? With sheer numbers we relentlessly destroy our planet. JOHN E. SWISHER Key Largo...
Biological weapons are proliferating. They are cheap and deadly [WORLD, Dec. 1]. Anyone who uses them risks killing off nearly everyone on the planet. It is a big mistake to think Saddam Hussein is an enemy solely of the U.S. He is an enemy of the human species. He is apparently willing to risk destroying our civilization and sending us into another Dark Ages. We need a U.N. that is strong enough to prevent one country from invading another. We have a right to die of old age, not germ warfare. ROB JOHNSON Urbana...