Word: planetful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...over back issues of Science magazine in the Congressional library. His favorite article to appear in Science is likely the relatively recent "Greenhouse Forecasting Still Cloudy," which reported that "many climate experts caution that it is not at all clear yet that human activities have begun to warm the planet--or how bad greenhouse warming will be when it arrives...
...impress the Swedish Academy? Who knows, but who could blame him? Roth has already won every major book award, and literary-conspiracy theorists could point out that a wider world view may have helped Saul Bellow win a Nobel Prize in 1976. Like Bellow's Mr. Sammler's Planet and The Dean's December, The Human Stain makes a good case for the decline of humanism, civility and common sense. Roth also gives us a bleak look beneath the surface of the nation's current self-satisfaction. Silk's off-campus troubles include an affair with Faunia Farley...
...loftier projects is coming under fire in Brazil, where the Maharishi Global Development Fund proposes to construct the first of 1,000 buildings planned for the planet's largest cities. This one, in Sao Paulo, is a four-sided, pyramid-shaped structure with Hindu carvings that will surpass the 1,483-ft.-tall Petronas Towers in Malaysia to become the world's tallest skyscraper. Opponents say Sao Paulo, virtually bankrupt as it is, would have to shoulder enormous infrastructure costs, and environmentalists claim the site is dangerously near a floodplain that is awash in the rainy season...
...Earth Day 2000, especially because the primary focus of this year's campaign is global warming. Global warming has to be the greatest misnomer of the new millennium, as it is such a benign, almost soothing name for the single most important environmental threat to the future of our planet and all living things...
...course, we can be part of the biggest Earth Day ever on April 22, 2000. Events will be taking place in every time zone on the planet in cities such as New York, London, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Tel Aviv and Manila, creating a continuous, 24-hour Earth Day celebration. And it will be an honor for me to chair the Earth Day 2000 event in Washington. It's time to send a message that politicians and corporations can't ignore...