Word: supportable
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...policymakers apparently overestimated the coercive effects which the air attacks could generate [in Vietnam]...Graduated escalation allowed time for the enemy to react to the U.S. pressures and sustain its morale, will and physical support of the war." --FROM CLARK'S THESIS...
Whether any of this turns out to be good for the gay and lesbian community is unclear. While the new findings seem to support the idea that homosexuality is merely a natural form of sexual expression, Bagemihl believes such political questions may be beside the point. "We shouldn't have to look to the animal world to see what's normal or ethical," he says. Indeed, when it comes to answering those questions, Mother Nature seems to be keeping an open mind...
...faint-of-heart: students were asked to conceive, plan and execute a project that would improve some aspect of the environment in their community. TFK promised to publish a report on standout projects in the last of its three-part series of environment-themed special issues, produced with the support of Ford Motor...
...areas that he regards as especially critical are Madagascar and the northern Andes. Madagascar has half as many plants as all tropical Africa (about 11,000), and the great majority are found nowhere else. The Missouri Garden has been active there since the early 1970s, helping train and support the country in evaluating and protecting threatened areas. In the northern Andes, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru are home to at least one-fifth of the world's biodiversity, including perhaps 60,000 species of plants, endangered by development and poorly studied. The garden has been cooperating with these nations to help...
...many electric utilities, but the U.S.--and Gore--had to show leadership by backing the idea, they insisted. The room grew suddenly frosty, and Gore, who in previous months had been speaking out on climate change and fighting internally for more antipollution funding, said, "Name a Senator who would support me." He then gave a lecture on global warming's vexing politics--the Senate would soundly reject the treaty in its current form--and abruptly ended the meeting. The green lobbyists concede that the public isn't yet ready to back painful measures to combat global warming, but contend that...