Word: localitis
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...extensive experience both at the local and national level and he has demonstrated a commitment to the IOP's mission," Nye said in a press release. "He will contribute immeasurably to the university as a whole...
Federal, state and local governments use the information it provides for political redistricting and funding distribution. Private industry also uses the data to determine where to place franchises and factories...
...beginning? And is what we call our universe, the expanding cloud of matter and radiation extending billions of light-years in all directions, really all there is, or is it only one part of a much larger universe in which the expansion we see is just a local episode...
...gloomy knowledge that we are only making things worse. It is now clear that what the world's cleverest scientists could not achieve by design, ordinary people are on the verge of accomplishing by accident. Human beings not only have the ability to alter weather patterns on local, regional and global scales, but they are already doing it--in ways that are potentially catastrophic...
...Amazon basin, deforestation has reached the point where it is altering precipitation patterns. This is because so much of the moisture entrained by clouds comes from the canopy of the forest below; as large tracts of trees disappear, so do portions of the aqueous reservoir that feeds the local rainmaking machine...