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...forest that appears to be critical to the habitat of the owl, but rather the structure and character of the forest. He and other biologists hope that one day they will be able to identify those key components and, by preserving them in reforested tracts, both widen the owls' habitat and open the way for a resumption of timbering on a selective basis. But the owl is not alone in the forest. As an "indicator species," its well-being is a measure of how other creatures and the ecosystem as a whole are faring. "The spotted owl is almost certainly...
Until the minds meet, the perception gap will widen, and some predict that unless festering tensions subside, violence may again erupt in Greensboro. , Even today the Klan shootings linger like a bad dream. In 1960 the sit-ins worked, but today the problems are too complex to solve simply...
...Commerce meetings. The cost of improvements can be kept down, he maintains, by building wooden ramps instead of concrete ones or simply attaching a buzzer on a front door. "Many business owners say, 'I don't have many disabled customers, so why should I build a ramp or widen my doorways or install a pull on the door of my store?' " says Ryan. "I just try to tell them it's a cost of doing business, and it's worthwhile...
...class-conscious workers must clearly realize that factionalism of any kind is harmful and impermissible.... Factionalism in practice inevitably leads to the weakening of harmonious work and to intensified and repeated attempts by the enemies of the governing Party, who have wormed their way into it, to widen the cleavage and to use it for counterrevolutionary purposes...
...Victoria Line. Some days, walking home from work, I feel a self-contained elation, holding myself aloof and feeling bold; shouldering past the tourists, facing every new stranger with an inscrutable watchfulness. I'm still too weak though, there are traces of straw-sucking ingenuousness--my eyes sometimes widen in spite of themselves, and let people in. So I'm asked for 50p in the Chinese takeaway, I blush in shops, and I smirk at wolf-whistles. Only occasionally...