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...time he would take care of the pigs," says Wilson. What drives Charles? In an essay he wrote in 2002 he said he had "come to realize that my entire life so far has been motivated by a desire to heal - to heal the dismembered landscape and the poisoned soil; the cruelly shattered townscape, where harmony has been replaced by cacophony; to heal the divisions between intuitive and rational thought, between mind and body, and soul." Like him or not, he is the only member of the royal family in a century who would have been able to string that...
...earth is reacting to the overuse of natural resources and the pollution of air, water and soil. Hurricane Katrina is an example. The U.S., one of the major consumers of fossil fuels, needs to lead the world in reducing global pollution by implementing the use of clean forms of energy. We are at the edge of the abyss. Let's step back before it is too late. Franklin Milman Tel Aviv...
...technology. France pushed through an aggressive nuclear energy program in the 1970s after the first oil shock. While the share of nuclear energy worldwide is just 16% of the total, it is five times higher in France, which has 59 of the world's 440 reactors on its soil. More are on the way: last year, the government approved the launch of a new generation of reactor, with the first one scheduled to be built-by Areva-in the Normandy town of Flamanville starting in 2007. Just how big could nukes become? Jean-Jacques Gautrot, who heads Areva's international...
...most imperiled. Consumption of wood for fuel in the area averages about 6 tons per family of four per year, hacking 300,000 acres off the forest each year and leaving some of China's poorest families exposed to a host of troubles: lung disease from smoky houses, soil erosion and floods from the denuded land...
...diarrhea and cognitive impairment, among others-is linked to the toxic chemical soup, including Saddam Hussein's stockpiles of nerve agents destroyed by U.S. forces, that contaminated the battlefield in the 1990-91 conflict. "We've done quite a lot more to set up preventive health systems-monitoring of soil, water, air and just ongoing monitoring of the environment to ensure as best we can that people avoid things, either infectious agent or toxins or any kind of exposures that might cause disease," he said early in 2004. But he added that such steps would not eliminate the stress...