Word: plante
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...size of the continental U.S. The world's farmers, meanwhile, have lost nearly 500 million tons of topsoil, an amount equal to the tillable soil coverage of India and France combined. Lakes, rivers, even whole seas have been turned into sewers and industrial sumps. And tens of thousands of plant and animal species that shared the planet with us in 1972 have since disappeared...
...coworkers might say that Ignatiev has sold out by reentering the bourgeoisie. When his plant closed in 1984, he was accepted into the Harvard Graduate School of Education and subsequently entered a doctoral program in the Department of American Civilization...
PUBLIC SERVICE JOBS. Once disdained as a relic of the New Deal, the idea of hiring the poor, at least temporarily, to plant trees or patch potholes is gaining among conservatives. Grudgingly aligning themselves with many liberals on this issue, they have concluded that there simply are not enough private jobs available during times of slow economic growth, and that the benefits to the poor, in work experience and dignity, would outweigh the costs...
...themselves in the dimly remembered cities. It is also more tempting for them to dump their own problems there. Until last summer, Westchester County, a prosperous suburb of New York City, was exporting some of its homeless to a hotel in midtown Manhattan. Five years ago, the sewage-treatment plant in the bedraggled New Jersey city of Camden % began taking on sewage waste from every other community in the county. To protest the stench, residents stopped paying their annual $275 sewer fees. Last week the sewer authority halved the charge, but the plant's odor still tinges...
...long ago Doug helped design a sewage treatment plant that forgoes modern technology for more traditional means. "People aren't the only ones with sewage to treat," he told us. "Every animal out there makes some, and Nature takes care of it." Modeled on a wetlands, his plant is a series of tanks open to sunlight. The sewage flows through so slowly you can't see it move. At the front end, there are only bacteria. Farther down you can find worms, shrimp, and then fish. "When we wanted to start the plant running, we needed all the little beasties...