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While scientists would in general like to seehuman populations stabilize, many would also liketo see the diversity of other species remainconstant, rather than continue to decrease as moreand more species become extinct...
...since the dinosaurs were killed off, say biologists, has the world experienced an extinction "spasm" like the man-made one that will wipe out 10% to 20% of the earth's estimated 10 million species of plants and animals by the year 2020. Since at least 50% of those species live in tropical rain forests, past efforts to save them have run into the usual lines of resistance from governments in the South, which resent any kind of meddling from the North. What makes the losses so unacceptable is that they are irreversible; once a species becomes extinct...
...qualified presidential candidates plus Barbara Bush have genuine Secret Service code names. And here they are: those still in the running as well as the dropouts, the predators, the carnivores, the endangered and the extinct. For those who didn't qualify for a code name, Grapevine has provided one. Match them up. And don't forget to vote...
...first that Clinton and Tsongas are new-breed Democrats. As they seek to craft a different relationship between government and the private economy, they challenge their party's traditional orthodoxy. In some ways (and especially when Tsongas touts his unabashed probusiness views), they sound like moderate Republicans, that nearly extinct species whose nostrums George Bush once championed. Tsongas enjoys a reputation as a hard-nosed economic truth teller, largely because he never tires of self-righteously describing himself in those terms. Clinton, on the other hand, suffers from what Mario Cuomo calls the "dumb-blond syndrome": If you're good...
...very well turn out that some species of plants and insects may become extinct as carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere continue to increase, says Bazzaz...