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...today'sdelicate ecological balance. The word is alsosupposed to embody, Wilson told me, a sense ofwonder, a sense of respect, and a sense ofgratitude. "The most despised organisms from theburying beetles to ants that are scurrying awaycarrying dead insects, down to the bacteria whichactually bring the soil to life," he says, "arethe reasons that we are able to carry on from oneday to the next...
...break. In terms that recalled the red-baiting tactics of the McCarthy era, Bush told CNN talk-show host Larry King that Clinton should "level with the American people on the draft, on whether he went to Moscow, how many demonstrations he led against his country from a foreign soil...
This fall, falling leaves and soil runoff havestained the water supply of Cambridge brown andyellow. However, neither the waste nor thediscoloration, which occurs every fall, signal anyhealth dangers, said Ed Dowling, a departmentchemist...
Dowling said the color, caused by dissolvediron and manganese from leaves and soil, isdifficult to filter...
...With most of the world's good land already under plow, a population of 11 billion human beings would probably have to make do with less than half the arable land per capita that exists today. That would set the stage for disaster, as farmers stripped nutrients from the soil, exacerbated erosion and gobbled up water and wild lands...