Word: plante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Journalists have learned that, far more than finding out about a smattering of the world's events, people love to have a story told to them, complete with characters and a thickening plot. Therefore, they survey the field of possible stories, pluck out one of enough importance and plant row after row after ream of it--their cash crop. O.J. Simpson warmed up the crowd a few years ago for today's main event, Bill and Monica. Mark and Sammy had their home run contest at intermission...
...latest characters, members of Congress, have their turn to carry on the national drama. Let us hope that Congress avoids the temptation to rise to the challenge of the media and does not plant the most marketable journalistic cash crop in years--impeachment. In surreal horror the nation reads and watches the emotional display of the media's spawn. The news has taken on a life of its own and become larger than itself. In Hearst's and Pulitzer's day, journalists took less-than-newsworthy prose poems and from those made a war. Today, all the media...
...main value is the maintenance of biological diversity," said Wilson. "When you cut a natural forest and replace it with farmland or a tree farm, you go from thousands of flowering plant species...to perhaps one tree species and a tiny number of organisms associated with...
Within the past 20 years, Arboretum staff has joined in expeditions to the Caucasus region of the former Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Europe, North Africa and regions of North America in search of plants for the Arboretum's collections. However, the staff concentrates mostly on collecting plants from the Boston region. Many of the accessions are the original plant introductions into North America from eastern Asia. All plants and trees are labeled...
...decisions in landscape management, the Arboretum established the Institute for Cultural Landscape Studies last fall. The Institute supports management of landscapes with a history of human use by integrating research and experience from historic preservation, natural areas conservation and land use planning. It is currently working on historic plant inventories, farmland conservation in New England, managing park-neighborhood relations in urban areas and public-private partnerships for cultural landscapes...