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...same space. This variety ensures a healthier, heartier ecosystem because not all the plant life will be susceptible to the same diseases and pests. As an example of what happens when diversity declines, Dallas-based landscape designer Sally Wasowski cites the beetle-borne fungus that threatens to wipe out the majestic oaks that shade the homes and ranches of Texas hill country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gardening Nature's Way | 5/17/1993 | See Source »

Sure, we could wipe the region from the map if we wanted to. But that is not our goal. Our goal is to stop the killing. Given that objective, bombing the country seems a counterintuitive choice...

Author: By Jacques E. C. hymans, | Title: Intervention Would Further Hinder Human Rights | 5/10/1993 | See Source »

...these; two of the recipients were subsequently shot, he says, and four got life sentences.) To impress the officials, Qiu Ju gives them fruit and buys an ill-fitting striped jacket that unfortunately makes her look even more like a hick chick from the sticks. All to wipe that smirk off the village chief's face -- and to save hers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fire in Her Eyes | 4/26/1993 | See Source »

IMAGINE WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF NEXT YEAR'S WINter were 100 degrees colder than normal or the summer 150 degrees warmer. Such swings would wipe out animals and plants; in fact, if Earth's climate were that irregular, life might never have arisen. But the seasons are relatively stable because Earth's axis of rotation stays at a constant 23 degrees tilt from the vertical. In July, for example, the sunward-leaning northern hemisphere experiences summer while the southern hemisphere, angled away from the sun, has winter. Six months later, the opposite is true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lunar Mission | 3/8/1993 | See Source »

...Chinese know they have to wipe off stains on their hands before they can shake hands with Bill Clinton," says an Asian diplomat. "The paroles will help, but more are needed to do the trick." Perhaps dangling petrodollars might. China has opened up its remote but resource-rich inland areas to foreign oil companies, inviting U.S. oil firms to join the exploration of Xinjiang's Tarim Basin, an area as big as Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good Behavior | 3/1/1993 | See Source »

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