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Senator Gore, who led the congressional delegation that attended the Earth Summit in Rio, is the Senate's most committed and knowledgeable environmentalist. Last spring Houghton Mifflin published Gore's best-selling Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit, a call for Americans to take urgent action in the face of a global ecological crisis...
...member panel that, in the name of reducing government impediments to business, has worked to loosen environmental regulations on everything from wetlands to air pollution. The council was influential in persuading President Bush, virtually alone among world leaders, not to sign a treaty to protect endangered species at the Rio conference. The Administration's argument: that the treaty would harm the U.S. biotechnology industry...
...world leaders united at the Earth Summit in Rio last June, and the Bush administration ignored their recommendations. Let's make sure the Harvard administration doesn't ignore our demands...
Children at the orphanage "Proyecto Casa Guatemala," on the Rio Dulce in Guatemala, grow under the loving if transient care of international volunteers. Travellers who stop here for a week or a month quickly learn to be mama and papa, as there is no permanent staff in charge of the children...
Brundtland, who gave the keynote address at the Rio conference, based her decision on scientific evidence she said showed that certain whale populations are no longer endangered...