Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...WHAT'S so great about Harvard anyway?" my prospective freshman sister growls over the phone. Remembering my own grumpy wait for that admissions letter, I mumble some sympathetic words about "hanging in there" and "it's not the end of the world either way" stuff, but the question sticks in my mind. Maybe Harvard isn't such a great school anymore...
...should people in developed countries care about the survival of tropical species never seen outside a rain forest? Yes, they should. Variety is the spice of life, goes the saying. Biologists would go further and argue that variety is the very stuff of life. Life needs diversity because of the interdependencies that link flora and fauna, and because variation within species allows them to adapt to environmental challenges. But even as the world's human population explodes, other life is ebbing from the planet. Humanity is making a risky wager -- that it does not need the great variety of earth...
...best place to preserve the earth's biodiversity is in the ecosystems that gave rise to it. Man must abandon the belief that the natural order is mere stuff to be managed and domesticated, and accept that humans, like other creatures, depend on a web of life that must be disturbed as little as possible...
...Botha dips into his private stock of witblits (white lightning), a fiery homemade liqueur distilled from the berries of the wild marula tree, only on special occasions. So it was a sign of the heady mood in Brazzaville, the capital of Congo, that Botha broke out the good stuff last week. Botha and his fellow negotiators, who included U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Chester Crocker, Angolan Armed Forces Chief of Staff General Antonio dos Santos Franca and Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Ricardo Alarcon de Quesada, were celebrating the signing of a historic protocol calling for independence for Namibia...
...quality comes at a price -- 30% to 40% more than regular pet foods -- proponents of the premium brands argue that the animals do not consume as much because the food is better. Some pet owners, however, suggest that the animals eat less simply because they don't like the stuff...