Word: powerfully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Here is one of the back alleys in which the Web can be brilliantly educational. Will enough high school kids, rummaging for term-paper material, find this alley and see what it means? Which is, perhaps, that virtual power, not real size, is often what's important. Envirolink has few staff members and little money, but it has power, because it is an entry to 400 enviro and animal-rights websites. Off-Road.com is an unknown, except to its communicants, who are mostly Western motorheads determined to keep Forest Service logging roads open at a time when rising environmental awareness makes...
...environment. Energized by the memories of the ravaged forests of his youth, he dropped out of Harvard and devoted his time to organizing rallies, street demonstrations and trash cleanups. It all culminated with the first Earth Day, when 20 million people put on the biggest show of flower power the country had seen...
Except for its radical fringes, environmentalism moved into the political mainstream, and so did Hayes. By the time he was 35, he was appointed by President Jimmy Carter to head the Solar Energy Research Institute in Colorado, and clean power became his passion. After finding the time to finish his law degree at Stanford in 1985, Hayes was drawn back onto the environmental front lines by groups looking forward to the 20th anniversary of the first Earth Day. The threat of global warming caused by the burning of fossil fuels had thrust the environment back into the headlines...
...problem was clear last August at a meeting in the Roosevelt Room between Gore and the CEOs of the leading environmental groups, who presented him with a set of options to cut carbon-dioxide emissions from the two biggest sources, cars and coal-fired power plants. Curbing the pollution from coal would involve controversial moves against many electric utilities, but the U.S.--and Gore--had to show leadership by backing the idea, they insisted. The room grew suddenly frosty, and Gore, who in previous months had been speaking out on climate change and fighting internally for more antipollution funding, said...
...blade of pure energy, created by a power cell and focused by crystals. The beam tends to be color-codes: Sith lords use red, Obi-Wan blue. While most light sabers emit a single blade, Darth Maul's double-bladed variation, shown, provides twice as much action in a climactic duel with...