Word: environmentalists
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...Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights leader --Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union --Nelson Mandela, South African President --Mao Zedong, leader of communist China --Ronald Reagan, U.S. President --Eleanor Roosevelt, U.S. First Lady --Franklin Delano Roosevelt, U.S. President and New Deal architect --Theodore Roosevelt, U.S. President and environmentalist --Margaret Sanger, birth-control crusader --Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister --Unknown Tiananmen Square rebel --Lech Walesa, Polish union organizer...
...Baekeland, plastics pioneer --Tim Berners-Lee, Internet designer --Rachel Carson, environmentalist --Albert Einstein, physicist --Philo Farnsworth, inventor of electronic television --Enrico Fermi, atomic physicist --Alexander Fleming, bacteriologist --Sigmund Freud, psychoanalyst --Robert Goddard, rocket scientist --Kurt Godel, mathematician --Edwin Hubble, astronomer --John Maynard Keynes, economist --The Leakey Family, anthropologists --Jean Piaget, child psychologist --Jonas Salk, virologist --William Shockley, solid-state physicist --Alan Turing, computer scientist --James Watson & Francis Crick, molecular biologists --Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher --The Wright Brothers, visionary aviators...
Oliver's personal relationship with nature is both difficult to accept and difficult to condemn. For a poet grounded so firmly in the messages of nature, Oliver is often less of an environmentalist than one might expect. As she herself states, her impressions stem more from the experience of a "luminous life" than from an external environmentalist ethic. But regardless of whether Oliver's reasons for writing poetry are universal, her reasons are well-considered and interesting. Additionally, in speculating on the difference between her motivations, her intentions and her poetry, the veteran Oliver reader may be encouraged to formulate...
Hayes, 54, didn't set out to be an environmentalist. He grew up in Camas, Wash., a small paper-mill town where the air stank from sulfur fumes. Like most other people there, he loved the outdoor life, but his concern over the damage the mills were doing to his beloved forest was tempered by the realization that the industry was also his dad's employer. Not until his undergraduate days at Stanford in the '60s did he become a rabble rouser, and then his target was not pollution but war: he helped lead more than 1,000 students...
...record for being principled and decisive. With jobs plentiful and the economy strong, there never will be a better time to be aggressive. True, the environmental community must do more to build grass-roots support, but who is Al Gore if not the country's leading environmentalist? If the environment is ever to be civilization's "central organizing principle," surely it should be the central focus of Gore's campaign. That would force his Republican opponents and any Democratic rivals to respond, giving voters the opportunity to judge who can best protect the environment--and civilization--as we head into...