Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Europe's population ill nourished and more susceptible to plague. And he is able enough in suggesting some of the plague's historic results. It permanently helped weaken the authority of the Catholic Church in a way important to the Reformation: priests had proved unable to protect themselves or their people from what was widely assumed to be God's vengeance. By lowering the value of land -because there were few workers left to till it-and raising the price of labor, the death toll also helped bring to an end the old system of feudal villenage...
...recycle and reuse." Under his direction, the University of Georgia's Institute of Ecology is studying how tidewater marshes help to produce 90% of the country's seafood-and how to save the marshes from unthinking land developers. Odum is working with a young Georgia legislator to protect his state's coastal wetlands from such destruction, and is particularly interested in seeing ecology taught to students of other disciplines such as law and sociology. >Barry Commoner, 52, chairman of the botany department at Washington University in St. Louis, is a prolific lecturer and writer (Science and Survival...
...first maze was the human body. To primitive man, a victim's convoluted intestines were proof that the labyrinth form contained life. Through history, the maze evolved into a means of fortification, an obstacle course designed to protect the castle within by trapping enemies seeking entrance. Modern man reduced the notion to a geometric style of gardening, an intricate network of hedged alleys that can lead a visitor to an open space in the middle-if he makes all the correct turns. Still, mythology lent the maze heroic proportions: it took a Theseus to tackle the labyrinth at Knossos...
...nation's biggest polluter. All sorts of tunnel-vision agencies, from the Agriculture Department to the Army Corps of Engineers, have pursued narrow goals that destroy delicate balances in nature and sometimes endanger human life. The glaring need is an overall body to coordinate the goals and protect the environment in a systematic...
...offshore drillers must bear unlimited liability for causing pollution and harming marine life-a big surprise from an alleged pawn of the oil companies. A year ago, Hickel was spurring exploitation of Alaska's oil-rich North Slope. Now he calls for forced-draft studies on how to "protect the fragile Arctic environment from the processes of exploitation...