Word: sprawl
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Fellow Huskies freshman forward Ryan Zoller made it all happen, deftly protecting the puck and then flipping it high past junior defenseman Matt Scor- sune for a mini-breakaway that forced juniorgoaltender J.R. Prestifilippo to sprawl to make aspectacular pad save. But Cummings tapped in therebound to catapult the Huskies into the finals...
PROTECTING THE FORESTS Your article on the need to preserve the world's wooded areas [HEROES FOR THE PLANET: FORESTS, Dec. 14] justifiably charged timber interests, population growth and suburban sprawl with reckless forest destruction. However, you should have included the illegal drug trade as one of the culprits. For years drug cultivators have claimed hundreds of thousands of acres of forest. Environmental organizations should adopt rigorous antidrug policies that compel government accountability and stem lethal drug cultivation. F. ANDY MESSING JR. Executive Director National Defense Council Foundation Alexandria...
Once upon a time the forests were the land. Covering the planet like an elegant drape, they nourished and protected most terrestrial life. Now the fabric is in tatters--slashed by timber interests, agriculture, suburban sprawl and plain human carelessness. In this second installment of our Heroes for the Planet series, we tell the stories of those working to preserve the great swatches of green that still survive...
...insect masses presented precisely the sort of complex problems that digital innovators live for--that thrilling "You're kidding!" moment when the boss hands out a visual wish list for the tech guys to make come true. A recent tour of the Pixar studio, hidden in the freeway sprawl east of San Francisco, made clear how projects like A Bug's Life erase the boundaries between technology and art. Model builders sculpt clay facsimiles of the film's characters. Traditional animators act out roles before video cameras to decide just how the characters' limbs should move. Graphics jocks transform...
...last, through extensive use of the World Wide Web, we have found the ultimate electronic hallucinogen [TECHNOLOGY, Nov. 9]. When enough computer-stoned Americans are floating through the neon-hued "planetwide sprawl of loosely interconnected chat rooms" called palaces, the criminal drug trade might just dry up for lack of demand. No one really needed opium after commercial television came along. Now it looks as if the Web will provide everything in the way of new experiences that Timothy Leary promised. JAMES ALEXANDER THOM Bloomington...