Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another simple but vitally important move would be to reinvigorate the U.S. commitment to family planning at home and abroad. Peter Raven, director of the Missouri Botanical Garden, points out that humanity consumes or wastes 40% of the total amount of energy stored by photosynthesis in terrestrial vegetation. No one knows how much more people can devour before they begin to exhaust resources and crowd out vital ecosystems. Lester Brown of the Worldwatch Institute argues that global annual food production already falls short of human consumption and that environmental degradation reduces yields 1% annually at a time when world population...
...final member of the cast is Sax (Henry Dormitzer). Sax provides the well-integrated music of the drama; although he doesn't contribute to the dialogue of the play, his musical performance is vital to the production. It was Shepard's intent to create an indefinite college effect with both characterization and music, and Kupferberg's direction and Dormizer's music achieve this goal admirably...
...interviewing for jobs, the D.N.A. recruiter had a full day scheduled at Harvard, which resulted in the hiring of two summer clerks and myself. Last fall we also spoke to a large number of Harvard students. But programs like this one, with little or no funds for publicity, doing vital legal aid work in parts of the country of which many people have never heard, cannot hope to attract a large number of applicants from schools like Harvard unless the schools help make our existence known to interested students...
...dangers inherent in such complex transplants pose ethical dilemmas for the medical community. University of Chicago ethicists and physicians spent a year discussing whether doctors have the right to ask healthy parents to donate portions of their vital organs, even if it means saving the life of their child. Critics argue that there is no way parents can refuse such a request when under the pressure of having a dying child. For that reason, university officials required a two-week delay between the time Teresa and her husband John signed the consent forms and the date of the transplant...
...Mengistu Haile Mariam and rebels from Tigre and Eritrea, denial of food is a key weapon for both sides. The main relief agencies would like to bring supplies to the insurgents across the Sudanese border instead of via government-controlled ports. But that could get the agencies banned from vital operations in government areas...