Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country might one day turn into a battlefield of a Sino-So-viet war. South Korean President Park, in the wake of President Nixon's trip to Peking, evidently decided that, instead of waiting for the withdrawal of the 43,000 U.S. troops still stationed on South Korean soil, it would be better to start talking with Pyongyang while the Americans are still there...
...only a limited number of Russians have dachas of their own, hundreds of thousands have access to some kind of rural retreat. "Every summer Friday afternoon half of Moscow seems to leave the city," reports TIME'S John Shaw. "Even a quarter-acre of Mother Russia's soil gives them a place to escape to from the aggravations of communal urban life. Tens of millions of country-born Russians have been converted into citydwellers by industrialization in a generation or less. Many of them remain country folk at heart. To ordinary Russians, the extravagant, arbitrary privileges of their...
...twelve-story building, with all its lights burning, seemed to tilt slowly before it plunged down the hillside like an ocean liner sinking at sea. Government officials worried about a potential threat to other buildings that have been densely packed together on the hillside. Hong Kong's clay soil becomes unstable when saturated with water, and so many buildings constructed so close to each other could result, in times of record rain, in mutual instability...
...future ERTS satellites could quickly detect any large-and possibly dangerous -change in the chlorophyll content of ocean plankton, a principal source of the world's oxygen supply. By similar "fingerprinting," ERTS and its successors could warn of changes in the health of woodlands, detect harmful acidity in soil, find clues to new oil and mineral deposits, and perhaps even sniff out illegal fields of opium poppies...
...conferees fretted continually about the consequences of industrialization. Microbiologist Rene Dubos, generally the most optimistic of the U.S.'s major ecologists, said that modern farmers are putting more energy into the soil (in the form of mechanization, fertilizers and pesticides) than they are taking out in the form of bumper crops. By 1987, Dubos predicted, such practices will cause enough pollution and depletion of resources to limit further growth. He offered the odd analogy of the medieval church builders in France, who decided to end their rivalry after the highest cathedral, in Beauvais, twice collapsed. "Every technology...