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...included here suggests a larger historical pattern: soldiers enlisted in the two World Wars are generally upbeat and optimistic, brimming with good-natured confidence. By contrast the G.I.s of the cold war, fighting in Korea and Vietnam, write letters of doubt and confusion, unsure whether dying in a Chosin Reservoir crater or Mekong Delta rice paddy for Old Glory made practical sense. Fear of death, however, permeates them all, no matter in which bloodstained decade they were composed...
...measured as little as 5 in. (13 cm) of rainfall in a year. And despite occasional monsoons, Southern California is so chronically arid that it couldn't sustain a third of its current population without sucking billions of liters a day out of Lake Mead, the distant Colorado River reservoir formed by Hoover...
Natural pharmaceuticals offered by biodiversity are also underutilized. Only a few hundred wild species have served to stock our antibiotics, anticancer agents, pain killers and blood thinners. The biochemistry of the vast majority--millions--of other species is an unfathomed reservoir of new and potentially more effective substances. The reason is to be found in the principles of evolutionary biology. Caught in an endless arms race, these species have devised myriad ways to combat microbes and cancer-causing runaway cells. We have scarcely begun to consult them for the experience stored in their genes...
...from Gatto's by-the-book zeal. In 1990, after a late-night dinner in a restaurant owned by a friend of his father's, he followed the odor of sewage into a back alley where he spotted a septic tank overflowing into a storm drain leading to a reservoir. Gatto arrested the family friend, who paid a $10,000 fine...
...some parts of the Amazon basin, deforestation has reached the point where it is altering precipitation patterns. This is because so much of the moisture entrained by clouds comes from the canopy of the forest below; as large tracts of trees disappear, so do portions of the aqueous reservoir that feeds the local rainmaking machine...