Word: smithsonian
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...sustain itself. If a park or protected area is too small to support some of its animal and plant life, the ecosystem will decline even with protection. As yet, no one knows the minimum critical size of a rain forest, but in 1979 Thomas Lovejoy, now at the Smithsonian Institution, set up a 20-year experiment with the cooperation of the Brazilian government to determine just that for the Amazon region. Among the findings: the smaller the forest, the faster the decline of insects, birds and mammals...
...than at any time in human history," said Stephen Schneider of the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Ecosystems will not be able to adjust so quickly, he said, "and the faster things change, the more likely it is that the impact will be negative." Warned Thomas Lovejoy of the Smithsonian Institution: "There will be no winners in this game of ecological chairs, for it will be fundamentally disruptive and destabilizing, and we can anticipate hordes of environmental refugees dwarfing the numbers of the Dust Bowl era or the boat people...
...WEAR (PBS, Dec. 26, 8 p.m. on most stations). Clothes make the man -- and the society. At least, so argues a Smithsonian World special, examining clothes through the ages...
...only child and heir, Lisa Marie, 20, and remains an executor of his estate. She gave the go-ahead to turn Graceland into an Elvis museum in 1982. Soden, a former banker, picked up ideas from Monticello and San Simeon, the California mansion of William Randolph Hearst. Smithsonian Institution curators helped Soden and his staff plan the displays...
BEETHOVEN: EARLY YEARS THROUGH THE EROICA (Smithsonian Collection of Recordings). Just what the world needs: more Beethoven. But wait. This collection is played with vim and vigor on original instruments: Beethoven like he oughtta...