Word: conservationism
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So it is that the U.S. is likely to be faced with recurring oil and natural-gas crises for some years to come. Their duration and severity remain to be seen. But volatile prices--as with gasoline during the Iraqi war, natural gas last winter and electricity in 2000--are...
Why are Congress and the White House responsible? As part of a long-standing ritual involving Democrats and Republicans, lawmakers and Presidents have devised energy plans that add up to no plan at all--not deliberately but by default. In pursuit of different agendas, competing interests tend to cancel one...
The larger issue, however, is not whether Ben flew the kite, which most scholars agree he did, but how significant his Philadelphia experiment was. In fact, many of his scientific breakthroughs were of great import--and he had a selfless urge to share his new knowledge. When Franklin caught the...
Conservation is there to ensure the continuation of whaling. It's a means to an end - STEFAN ASMUNDSSON, Head of Iceland's IWC delegation
This time around, familiar battles led to familiar outcomes. Japan was denied permission to begin new "scientific" whaling operations - in which 300 more whales would be taken - because the IWC believed it would be thinly disguised hunting. Iceland recently announced an intention to return to commercial whaling by 2006 - following...