Word: concern
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Conditions have conspired, say scientists, to make the Amazon more vulnerable than ever before. Of most concern is the heightened impact of El Nino, the periodic warming of Pacific waters that plays havoc with the world's weather. El Nino helped cause the 1998 Amazon dry spell, and ecologist Nepstad has studied the vicious circle of drought and fire. The first year of drying and burning sucks vital moisture from the soil and leaves the forest littered with tinder. Sheltering leaves that ordinarily prevent the forest floor from baking in the sun are thinned out. The rainy season may provide...
...only real concern was the way ActiveShield, McAfee's antivirus applet, handled infected e-mail. As a test, I sent myself a live virus--it was iloveyou, which lived benignly on my Macintosh (a platform, by the way, that doesn't suffer nearly as badly from viruses as the PC world does). Disturbingly, my PC was more than happy to accept the poisoned e-mail. It even let me read the message. I'm told that had I actually clicked on the infected attached file to view it, ActiveShield would have intervened and caught the bug. A better...
...bathtub drain in our room is a bit slow for the principessa's taste," or, even more often, "The principessa has asked me to inquire about whether this hotel might have a down pillow." I do not happen to have a gift for learning foreign languages--I've expressed concern over the years that the headline on my obituary will read MONOLINGUAL REPORTER SUCCUMBS--but in countries where I don't know how to say so much as "I'll have the salami," I tend to know the word for pillow and the word for down...
...vegetarian cookbook by a teen for teens, was published in August--is part of a small but fast-growing movement among kids ages 6 to 18. More Americans are choosing to cut out red meat. But kids, spurred by everything from a love of animals to trendiness to a concern for the environment, are adopting various forms of vegetarianism at higher rates than ever--often independent of their carnivorous parents...
Vice President Al Gore '69, on the other hand, reflected a concern that our moral authority abroad is a matter of national interest--one that may require U.S. intervention in cases of genocide. However, neither candidate adequately responded to the issue of intervention in Rwanda in the mid-1990s, although Gore noted that the later humanitarian response should not have been so delayed...