Word: wilkinson
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...lobsters lurked in crevices, while squid, spooked by shadows, dissolved into clouds of ink. But now many of these bustling underwater habitats are taking a beating--and the tropical storms that tore through the region in recent weeks are the least of their problems. "Reefs are tough," observes Clive Wilkinson, a biologist at the Australian Institute of Marine Science. "You can hammer them with cyclones, and they'll bounce right back. What they can't bounce back from is chronic, constant stress." The kind of stress, in other words, that is being applied by humans...
...fishing, harbor dredging, coral mining, deforestation, coastal development, agricultural runoff, shipwrecks and careless divers are putting so much pressure on these extraordinary ecosystems that they may not survive beyond the next century. "You can never point to one thing and say it's this that's killing the reefs," Wilkinson observes, "because in reality it's almost everything...
...Particularly when academics take a prominent part in politics, they become victims and are attacked on or off campus," says Paul Wilkinson, professor of international relations and head of the School of History and International Relations at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland...
Recent events seem to bear out Wilkinson's assessment. For example, attacks against university professors have occurred recently in Northern Ireland, Italy and Spain...
...there have been exceptions which could prove to be precursors to the trends St. Andrews' Wilkinson describes...