Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...similar process of educated-guess-and-error led people to load up on the nutritional supplement beta carotene in the early 1990s. Scientists noted that those who eat lots of fruits and vegetables tend to get less cancer and speculated that carotenoids--the same antioxidant substances that seem to protect against heart disease--were responsible. In particular, they focused on beta carotene, the most abundant and common carotenoid, as the most likely to prevent cancer...
Maybe. But maybe Al Gore can't compartmentalize as neatly as his boss. How can he share in Clinton's public successes when he's been busy denouncing the President's personal failings, staking his claim as a family man and promising to protect the dignity of the office? The stories about a Clinton-Gore feud have been circulating for more than two weeks, to the point that the President had to spend the better part of his press conference last week denying them. To students of royal families, all the signs of marital strain are there. The couple manage...
...everybody is in favor of the rescue mission. Some diehards argue that the best way to protect the mountains is to leave them alone; new trails, they fear, will only attract more climbers. But Keith Desrosiers, the initiative's executive director, argues that they will come anyway. "More people are moving here; more hikers are coming," he says. "That's a given." Unless the climbers are channeled up the mountains in an orderly fashion, he fears, the mountains will be overrun...
...neighbors respected his reticence and shared it. They're Mainers, after all. "We're private people," one of them told me, "and we protect the privacy of others. And we're always rather surprised when someone else doesn't." That protectiveness holds even today, 14 years after White's death. In the local library one morning, I struck up a conversation with a man who used to run the general store...
Another question is how much ecotourists are truly willing to pay to keep the environment unspoiled. The government of the Seychelles has backed away from the $100 environmental fee it proposed to levy on each traveler this year to fund preservation efforts such as protecting the Vallee de Mai, a unique palm forest. In a recent study, 80% of Germans said an unspoiled environment was important to them, but only 40% were prepared to pay even $1 extra a day to help protect the environment of their holiday destination...