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...nature's diversity, are affected by human activities in countless ways. Frogs, for example, are gradually disappearing around the world, perhaps because airborne pollutants are destroying their eggs. The crucial question is whether humankind can afford to exterminate large numbers of other species without ruining the ecosystems that also sustain...
Debbie hasn't yet matured emotionally enough to either sustain a relationship like Linda and Steve's or reconsider one like Janet does. Instead, she provides a comical foil to the others...
...TITLE IS ENVY. Iago, weep. In her second book -- her first was last year's best-selling Damage -- British novelist Josephine Hart has concocted a silly piece of romantic formula and fitted it out with enough heavy portents to sustain a Greek myth. "They say the veil that hides the future from us was woven by an angel of mercy," she muses. Or, "Novelists of our own lives, making ourselves up from bits of other people, using the dead and living to tell our tale, we tell tales." And this is only in the prologue...
...Vieux, many Ivory Coasters believe, is surrounded by corrupt advisers. Although his policies helped make the country richer than its neighbors, he also stripped his government of credible economic alternatives and virtually guaranteed that the politicians who come after him will not be able to sustain the prosperity...
...paddle onshore to catch a movie or a meal at McDonald's. Furthermore, these international criminals say that if their ultimatums are not met within three days, Mrs. Bush, your wife of 47 years, will be set adrift on the Bering Strait in a rubber dinghy with nothing to sustain her but some frozen whale blubber and a complete set of Jane Fonda exercise cassettes. What would be your response? Would you put your arm around...