Word: ecosystems
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problems, we must push fiction aside. It's possible that an asteroid will collide with the earth in five thousand years, but if we are not careful, it will not collide with a living, breathing planet, but rather with a radioactive piece of dead rock or a fatally poisoned ecosystem. It's not destruction from above that we must worry; it's about destruction at our own hands...
This is also a film about a small town. It resembles an ecosystem where the threads of life are tightly interwoven. All of the citizens of North Bath are completely dependent on one other. After sueing him for lost wages and then stealing his snowblower, Sully isn't surprised to find Carl curled up on his couch later that night. As vicious as their relationship may be, Sully is still a source of comfort. And when Sully wins his lawyer's wooden leg in the weekly poker game, Wirf knows it is only a matter of time before he gets...
...most Amazon Indians would rather move out of the rain forest; a description of Thoreau as a "sanctimonius beatnik." Still, O'Rourke is funny. In the Amazon he encounters one Yagua Indian with a grass skirt so elaborate that "he was lucky he hadn't been declared an endangered ecosystem from the waist down...
Museum of Science. Science Park, Boston. 723-2500. Through May 15. Mysteries of the Bog, an exhibition of an ecosystem native to North American and Europe...
Museum of Science. Science Park, Boston. 723-2500. Through May 15. Mysteries of the Bog. an exhibition of an ecosystem native to North America and Europe...