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...pride ourselves on treating each plant as an individual.” Plants that prefer a great deal of sunlight are placed under a sunlamp, and those that need lots of water are specially treated with frequent waterings. Whitchurch takes no chances with watering his plants??an ordinary cupful just won’t do. “It’s a light mist, not a harsh watering-can type of water, so as not to disturb the root base...
Farrell said he hopes to document around 17,000 species in total, including 10,000 species of insects and 6,000 plants??as part of an ecological study he is conducting with the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh and the Smithsonian Museum...
Nuclear power plants do not pollute our environment. While they produce radioactive wastes, these wastes are contained and manageable. The nuclear power industry takes full responsibility for all its wastes and includes waste management costs in the price of its product. In contrast, fossil fuel plants??while cleaner than in the past—simply dump their waste products into the atmosphere...
Following Jesus’ command “to go and make disciples of all nations,” McKean devised an impressive plan to “plant” churches in every country. (McKean-inspired “plants?? became known as members of the Boston Church of Christ—BCC—because of his Lexington base.) In 1982 the first domestic church was planted in Chicago and the first international church in London. By the following year, a New York City church was created (in what McKean refers...
Stop and take a look around the next time you travel through your hometown. I’d bet good money that the entire civil infrastructure of your city—roads, airports, train stations, dams, aqueducts, reservoirs, courthouses, schools, hospitals, electrical transmission lines, garbage dumps, sewer treatment plants??was built before 1960, with the vast majority built in the 1930s. To take just one local example, according to Massport, Logan Airport was built in 1923 and expanded to its current four-runway configuration in the 50s. Since then there have been many improvements to the airport...