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...follow-up to our Jan. 2, 1989, Planet of the Year issue, TIME invited 14 environment experts and policymakers to Alexandria, Va., for a one-day conference. Its aim was twofold: to take stock of the environmental progress that had been made around the world during the year, and to develop an agenda for the future. This special report sums up our conclusions -- and some proposals for action...
Several weeks earlier, TIME had convened a group of 14 scientists and policymakers for an all-day conference on the environmental crisis. The meeting, held in Alexandria, Va., and organized by Washington correspondent Dick Thompson, was a follow-up to a 1988 ecological symposium that led to TIME's selection of the endangered earth as Planet of the Year. "This has been a busy year," says sciences editor Charles Alexander. "We ran a story on the environment about every other week, including reports on logging in the Northwest and Japan's environmental practices, and covers on the Exxon Valdez...
Puerto Rico was equally hard hit, particularly on the islands of Culebra and Vieques. And yet, despite $1.3 billion in damage, "you can't even tell there was a hurricane here," beams tourist Emma Meadows of Richwood, W. Va. Shops and restaurants are open, highways are clear, and only 400 of the island's 8,500 rooms are still out of service. The conference rooms and lobby of the 570-room Condado Plaza have new windows, carpeting, light fixtures and furniture. Tree surgeons at the El San Juan are nursing the trademark poolside banyan tree back to life; the hotel...
...decision came less than a week after President George Bush and the nation's Governors huddled in Charlottesville, Va., for an education summit that endorsed several of the same ideas -- radical restructuring of schools and creation of national performance goals. "The Texas ruling is consistent with the growing national expectations we are placing on schools," says Robert Berne, an associate dean at New York University...
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.--The first ever presidential education summit came to an end yesterday, as President Bush and the nation's 50 governors said helping disadvantaged preschoolers and illiterate adults were among their top priorities for the near future...