Word: reached
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...easy to see that Maria Marcovaldi loves sea turtles. There is an image of the long-lived beast (some reach age 70) on her T shirt. And miniature re-creations of the animal (which can grow to a length of 7 ft. and weigh 1,500 lbs.) hang from her necklace and earrings. Driving her Jeep along the beach at Praia do Forte in northern Brazil, she hits the brakes and suddenly does something surprising. She points with pride to a big 400-room resort hotel intruding upon the sea turtles' habitat. "We persuaded the owner to keep buildings...
...Idiot's Guide series, published by Macmillan, is still a distant second. But sales are expected to reach $28 million this year, more than double the figure for 1997. Its topics are more creative, from The Complete Idiot's Guide to Beating the Blues to The Complete Idiot's Guide to Being Psychic. For presidential-scandal lovers, Macmillan has commissioned a bankruptcy lawyer to write The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Starr Report. Author Steven D. Strauss says the book, which he is finishing up, will "explain a lot, like what impeachment means...
...thing that felt inspiring was this character, the voice of this person who was taking a huge risk and experiencing what it is to make a mistake for the first time and take the consequences." With a TV show, they could explore this person's life without having to reach a resolution in two hours...
Since both reason and justice seem out of our reach, let us at least have poetic justice. Will the 13 most guilty parties--true representatives of America's twisted culture--please rise? President Clinton, Monica Lewinsky, Kenneth Starr, Linda Tripp and the nine robed Justices of the Supreme Court, you are hereby sentenced to confinement, together, for one year in a single room of the old Custom House in Salem, Mass., where, completely disrobed, you shall read and discuss these four works: The Scarlet Letter, Notes from the Underground, The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation...
...ocean gives us a 4 billion-year-old legacy--the living history of the world--and that we are blithely squandering our inheritance by way of pollution and overfishing. What is more: there is so much left to see in the oceans. The few existing manned submersibles can reach only half their depth. The benthic, or bottom-dwelling, plants and animals represent the least-known ecosystem on the planet. Earle feels personal responsibility for the ocean's future and safety. She takes fish personally. She once bumped into "a grouper with an attitude...