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...state of India's water supply is just one sign of what could become a global disaster. From the slums of Mexico to the overburdened farms of China, human populations are outstripping the limited stock of fresh water. Mankind is poisoning and exhausting the precious fluid that sustains all life...
...groups, along with such national organizations as the Rainforest Action Network, the Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council, call the geothermal project unsafe and unnecessary. Moreover, they argue, the drilling rigs, power plants, transmission lines and roads in the plan will harm or destroy tracts of the precious Wao Kele O Puna rain forest. Even native Hawaiian religious groups oppose the scheme, claiming that it will rob the volcano-dwelling goddess Pele of body heat...
Clean, limitless geothermal power is being touted to solve the state's energy problems, but opponents claim that tapping it will endanger the islands' precious rain forests...
...quirks that an artist puts into animation," says Jean MacCurdy, chief of animation at Warner Bros. With animation in eclipse for so many years, finding those artists was a challenge. "Great animators are like great actors," says Disney chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg. "The talent pool is so small and so precious...
Although it centers on a legal theory developed by one of America's most famous jurists, the senior thesis written by David H. Souter '61 offers precious little insight into the Supreme Court nominee's politics or judicial philosophy...