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Word: serengeti (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...redefine our place in -- not over -- nature, accept the role of resident rather than architect and resist the temptation technology affords us to mold a world responsive to our whims alone. Alaska, which once sanctioned the shooting of polar bears from the air, now dreams of creating a second Serengeti, fulfilling the fantasy of those who begrudge nature its sparseness and exquisite balance. This is more than bad biology, and it is sadly fitting that it should befall the wolf. A majestic symbol of the wild and a victim of man's relentless efforts to eradicate what he cannot control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World Is Not A Theme Park | 12/28/1992 | See Source »

Situated on Alaska's North Slope just west of the Canadian border, the 19 million-acre refuge is home to several hundred Eskimos, grizzlies, musk-oxen, wolves, migratory birds and a herd of 180,000 caribou, whose majestic spring migration has inspired naturalists to call the preserve "America's Serengeti." But to oilmen and Alaska politicians, the refuge's 1.5 million- acre coastal plain is a potential lode of black gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mystery Pool Under the Plain | 9/17/1990 | See Source »

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