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...Heard: “Let me see...I know it’s in here somewhere—I’m usually so organized. I hope I’m not making you late for class...Oh, wow!—Here are those peanut butter crackers from seventh grade...
...Tuesday/Thursday Binder, Monday/ Wednesday/Friday Binder, Foreign Cultures sourcebook, Walkman, workout clothes, pencils-pens-spare change-Harvard ID card (all in appropriate compartments), two apples, plastic silverware set, checkbook, overdue library books, copy of Grisholm’s latest novel, peanut butter crackers from seventh grade, bottle of Motrin...
Even with the Crimson bats largely silent on the afternoon, they lit up for one final threat in the bottom of the seventh...
...life-support systems may be the most difficult challenge humanity has ever faced. The report specifies some common-sense steps in the right direction. For instance, governments can eliminate the estimated $700 billion in annual subsidies that spur the destruction of ecosystems. In Tunisia, water is priced at one-seventh of what it costs to pump, encouraging waste. In the mid-1980s, Indonesia spent $150 million annually to subsidize pesticide use. With access to cheap chemicals, Indonesian farmers poured pesticides onto their rice fields, killing pests, to be sure, but also causing human illness and wiping out birds and other...
Researchers of biodiversity agree that we are in the midst of the seventh mass extinction. Even if the current rate of habitat destruction were to continue in forests and coral reefs alone, half the species of plants and animals would be gone by the end of the 21st century. Our descendants would inherit a biologically impoverished and homogenized world. Not only would there be many fewer life forms, but also faunas and floras would look much the same over large parts of the world, with disaster species such as fire ants and house mice widely spread. Humanity would then have...