Word: uprootedness
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Uprooted Forests. Similar forays are taking place throughout the game parks of East Africa. Protected by the rigid enforcement of poaching laws and strict limits on trophy hunters, the population of big game has exploded beyond all bounds. There are now 20,000 elephants in Tsavo alone, and another 20...
The proliferating herds of hippo, buffalo and giraffe add to the problem, and as a result, African game parks are badly overgrazed and their enormous herds are faced with famine. Tsavo's hungry elephants have uprooted entire forests of thorn trees, turned giant baobab trees into twisted wreckage in...
But the FHA, reading the law literally, has underwritten the construction of many luxury buildings. Even if such buildings replace slums, they offer no new housing for uprooted residents, who must move to other slum neighborhoods. And some of the projects, like the Barrington Plaza apartments in a high-rent...
Its roots seemed all too petty for a nation at war. Ky, who was born near Hanoi and became one of the 800,000 North Vietnamese anti-Communists who emigrated to the south when the nation was divided in 1954, has given uprooted northerners most of the top positions in...
The second question may be the most important, because if the Brookline-Elm St. route is approved by the federal authorities, Cambridge will face a massive relocation problem. Some 3000 to 5000 people would be uprooted by the highway, and right now there is no place in Cambridge for them...