Word: planetful
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...feel like I carry all the problems of the planet," he said. "Nuclear weapons, my fault. Slavery, my fault...
...more realistic appraisal of the choices before them: The environment can only be protected and cleaned up at a cost, which will have to be borne by U.S. corporations and consumers. That's a reality the Clinton administration tended to obscure, instead promoting the somewhat wishful thinking that the planet could be saved in ways that were all good for corporate America and would interfere very little with U.S. consumption habits. That simply didn't square with the numbers - compliance with Kyoto, for example, would have required that current U.S. carbon gas outputs, which still increase each year...
...collision course with most of the international community, which has been pressing, through the Kyoto Accord on Climate Change, to curb carbon-gas outputs. The U.S. is by far the world's largest contributor to this problem, producing somewhere between 25 and 30 percent of the planet's carbon gases despite constituting less than 5 percent of its population...
Researchers heralded the finding of a mineral in a meteorite from the Red Planet, which they claim could have been made only by a microbe. As forms of life go, microbes rank fairly low. We've been waiting for something that could at least communicate with Spock...
Within a couple of decades, Harvard would have firmly established Mars as the Crimson Planet--and would have established itself as the university of the future...