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...real difficulty with sustaining a useful connection with nature, though, comes from the fact that nature does not seek to make a connection with us. It is a hard truth to swallow, but nature does not care if we live or die. We cannot survive without the oceans, for example, but they can do just fine without us. One might surmise that the natural world exists to test our capacity to care or to preserve ourselves, but even that little fancy is man-made. Nature goes its own way, headless and heartless, and one either responds to it or does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All The Days Of The Earth | 4/26/2000 | See Source »

...good place to start would be to give albatrosses a future with more food and less plastic trash to swallow. A U.N. marine-pollution treaty makes dumping plastics illegal, but policing at sea is impractical. Nonetheless, ships could be required to carry up-to-date equipment for handling garbage and storing liquid waste that might otherwise be dumped into the water. Routine discharges put more oil into the sea than major spills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cry Of The Ancient Mariner | 4/26/2000 | See Source »

...burden of blame on the technology sector and its famously overvalued stock prices. Considering the hype--and subsequent expectation inflation--that has surrounded the success of the dot-coms, implicating Internet fever is a safe, uncontroversial explanation that specialists feel comfortable voicing and that the public is eager to swallow...

Author: By Alixandra E. Smith, | Title: All Quiet on the Financial Front | 4/17/2000 | See Source »

...deed once his true identity is revealed, although he is creative in his short-lived crime spree, managing to disinherit his unborn son and forge one of his servant's checks. Crick is extremely convincing as the overly emotional, yet big-hearted sailor Dauntless, although occasionally he tends to swallow some of the song lyrics. But what Crick sometimes loses in verbal communication is more than made up for by his farcical facial expressions and physical stage antics, such as having funny conversations with his heart and breaking into a sailor's two-step...

Author: By Marcelline Block, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Topsy-Turvy Marriage | 4/14/2000 | See Source »

...folks who've been tossing back handfuls of vitamin supplements for years now, the latest news from the National Academy of Sciences may be hard to swallow. There is no need, according to the report released Tuesday, for most people to take major doses of antioxidants, or vitamins C and E - we should stick to the Recommended Daily Allowance, because there is little or no evidence, after all, that large doses of antioxidants prevent chronic disease. Predictably, the academy recommends the natural intake of antioxidants; instead of gulping down a few pills, everyone should concentrate on eating the fruits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Rx for Vitamins: Don't O.D. on C and E | 4/11/2000 | See Source »

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