Word: conservationism
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I was disappointed by the negative and, frankly, trite responses from students interviewed in your article concerning the restored bells of St. Paul's Church (News, Feb. 17). In lieu of praise for the conservation of an unusual civic instrument was all-too-Harvardian whining. The sundry 15-minute strikes...
According to his grandson, Brendan Frank of Boston, Perry was a "raconteur, sailor, an accomplished designer/carpenter and a man deeply committed to the conservation and enjoyment of the salt marshes of Massachusetts," as quoted in the Boston Globe.
During 1998, proclaimed the International Year of the Ocean by the United Nations, conservation groups hope to make the swordfish a symbol for all marine creatures threatened by overfishing. So, welcome to the "Give the Swordfish a Break" campaign, to be kicked off this week with a well-publicized swordfishless...
The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, a 36-nation body that regulates swordfishing as well as tuna fishing, has set quotas for member countries. "But it's too little too late," argues Carl Safina, director of the Living Oceans Program of the National Audubon Society, who favors...
Even though the theory remains to be proved, its implications dovetail with the experiences of parents like Michele Colburn, a working mother from Washington who recently spent six months battling lice on her 11-year-old daughter. "The lice would disappear from her head and then reappear," Colburn recalls. "I...