Word: protecters
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...halt the Serbians' grave violations of human rights or to help the hundreds of thousands of Kosovo Albanian refugees whose only shelter has been the open sky. We urge the Harvard community to take all possible effective action, as soon as possible, to help to avert disaster and to protect the Kosovo refugees, who are now exposed not only to the harshness of the Balkan winter, but also to Serbian attacks...
Undergraduate Council President Beth A. Stewart '99 said, "I hope [this resolution] will protect students from binge drinking, while not infringing on students who drink safely and legally...
...microclimates. They are rainmakers. And the other 4,000 acres paid for by the Deal, though they have some big trees, are too fragmented to be an effective wildlife habitat for murrelets, Pacific giant salamanders and the spotted owls that loggers love to hate. In particular, they offer little protection for coho salmon, listed as threatened in the state. Salmon need cool, shaded, clear streams for spawning. Aggressive, steep-slope logging cuts shade and pours down sediment. This is no secret, but the state has not enforced regulations to protect salmon streams, and the new Headwaters legislation, say critics, stipulates...
...presence of smoke made the crash seem eerily similar to that of ValuJet Flight 592 in the Florida Everglades in 1996. As a result, the Swissair disaster has attracted fresh attention to inexpensive devices already widely deployed in private corporate jets--but not in commercial aircraft--that can help protect pilots and passengers from the horror of a smoke-filled cabin...
...Kohl's 16-year tenure also marks the end of Germany's postwar era. "Kohl's themes were derived from World War II and the Cold War," says TIME correspondent James Graff. "He shepherded the country through the complex process of reunification, and worked to protect Germany from its worst impulses by centering it in a strong European Union." Schroeder, by contrast, is a German baby-boomer, concerned less with the past and the wider European perspective than with the domestic economy. "This election marks a new generation assuming the leadership of Germany, one less shadowed by the legacy...