Word: conservee
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IN THE CENTURY since James's lament, the U.S. has compiled a decidedly mixed record when it comes to sacrificing for the common good. Not surprisingly, the First and Second World Wars were accompanied by large-scale national mobilizations for the war effort. Millions fought, while those on the homefront...
The fastest-growing market is the auto industry, which is increasingly replacing metal with lightweight plastics in bumpers, body panels and other parts. These polymers typically weigh half as much as steel but are just as strong. The plastics conserve gas by making a vehicle lighter, and manufacturing them requires...
I'M NOT a complainer. With the situation in the Gulf and the need to conserve energy, I have no problem with Harvard's flirting with the bare minimum temperature allowed by Massachusetts state law, and occasionally ignoring it altogether.
The University is also working with the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) on a plan urging students to conserve energy in their dorms, Lichten said. Details of the plan will be worked out a meeting today, said Samuel A. Newell '92 of PBHA's Environmental Action Committee.
The most dramatic threats are in Hawaii, where the 900 indigenous plant species -- some found nowhere else in the world -- face new competition from another 900 species of nonnative plants, including banana poka and ornamental ginger. The banana poka was imported in the 1950s by a Japanese gardener, and has...