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...individuals through the gay rights movement of the past 20 or so years has given the most visibility in American history to the most number of gays, lesbians and bisexuals who live in our society. Yet, that does not mean that we only began dropping onto the planet in 1969 after the Stonewall protest...
Environmentalists staged Earth Day to dramatize a simple message: The planet is threatened by a host of man-made ills, from toxic landfills to ozone depletion. But at least one part of the message -- the theory that the buildup of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere will cause global warming -- has come under considerable attack. A small but vocal group of scientists contends that the case for warming is sketchy and based on inadequate computer models...
...spurned this on," says Robert M. Gogan, head of the student environmentalist group at the School of Education, "is the seeming thaw of the Cold War. People ask `so what's left as the big issue?" Many of them, Gogan adds, have concluded that it is saving the planet from ecological collapse...
Whole lot of shaking. Columbia, Md., is host to "Performance for the Planet," a concert with 10,000 Maniacs (the band, not the audience), the Fabulous Thunderbirds and the Jungle Brothers. April...
...rousing pounding. Led by Native Americans, Oregonians across the state will beat on drums just before noon. The thumping is meant to assure disgruntled earth spirits that mankind is still here and trying to improve the planet's condition...