Word: smalling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Powell could scarcely have imagined that a century after his feat, more than 2 million tourists would visit the Grand Canyon annually--among them families with small children who would float down the once fearsome Colorado as a summer lark. During the past 30 years, annual visitation to the Grand Canyon has ballooned from 2 million to more than 5 million. If you want to paddle down the Grand Canyon on your own, without hiring a commercial outfitter, the waiting list for boating permits is now so long that you won't be able to launch your raft until...
...many decades ago, those advocating the preservation of wilderness constituted a small minority and were considered to be on the radical fringe. Such pastimes as mountaineering and backpacking were thought to be the exclusive domain of outcasts, anarchists and social misfits. But there has been a broad-based shift in public opinion of late. Polls show that a majority of Americans now place a high priority on protecting the environment...
...TODAY: Small slivers of liver tissue can be grown in the lab from one of the many types of liver cells, but they are not yet ready for transplant...
SHOPPING Even in an era of online marketing, there may still be a mall [8], but it will be relatively small and easy to get to, with sidewalks and bike racks instead of a mammoth parking lot. An airy place where a flood of natural light will cut down on energy use, the mall will be a two-way operation: when you're through using any product you buy there, the stores will be required to take it back for recycling...
...protein that's present no matter what strain is involved--then it is possible that by 2025 or so, children could be getting a universal cold vaccine. And then they will have to listen to us old geezers reminisce about the days when we used to carry a small white cloth called a handkerchief...