Word: would
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...that attitude existed back in 1972, there would have been no embassy here," Nixon commented later. Echoing George Bush's announcement of a meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev, Nixon likened his discussions with China's leaders to "two ships passing in the night...
...Monitor story told of a local farmer who had been pestered by bears getting into his feed corn. Had to shoot two last year, he said. A fish-and- game-commission biologist said, "Rather than have farmers kill the bears, we would rather have sportsmen utilize the resource." You get used to blood- sport bureaucratese; "utilize,"or "harvest," is what you do when you get something fuzzy and four-footed in your sights. As in most states, New Hampshire's fish and game policies often seem to be caught in a time warp, perhaps in the decade of the 1820s...
...year's most beautiful season. Once, during deer season, I rounded a turn on a logging road while running with my dogs. A couple of heroes were sitting in a pickup truck, drinking beer. One had his rifle trained on my midsection. If he had killed me, he would have received a severe talking-to from the authorities. No one I mentioned this to was surprised. They all had similar stories...
According to the Gaia hypothesis, earth's atmosphere would be unstable for life if it were not regulated by the biosphere, the envelope of life surrounding earth. Oxygen levels have remained at roughly 21% of the atmosphere for 200 million years, Lovelock asserts, whereas they should have fluctuated wildly, according to some geochemical models of the atmosphere. Were oxygen levels to rise above 25%, spontaneous fires would break out; if they dropped below 15%, many higher life-forms would suffocate. Climatologist Tyler Volk of New York University argues that life controls earth's temperature as well. In a study recently...
...climate. Now he and Margulis believe this regulation is achieved through the simple mechanism of feedback. For instance, in a hypothetical scenario, Lovelock shows that a planet covered simply by light- and dark-colored daisies could control the sun's heat. In this self-regulating model, dark daisies would absorb sunlight and warm the planet, until it became too warm for the dark daisies and instead favored the proliferation of light-reflecting daisies. That would have the effect of cooling the planet until the cycle reversed itself again...