Word: planet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...supernova explosions at the very edges of the known universe. Yet the core of our own galaxy, the Milky Way, has long been an elusive stranger. Thick clouds of interstellar dust and gas absorb most of the light from the galaxy's central bulge long before it reaches planet earth, a small and distant suburb 30,000 light-years away from the Milky Way's midsection...
...creatures who populate the planet have always fascinated the one identified by Shakespeare as "the paragon of animals." Naturalist Darryl Stewart's entertaining Almanac shows why. Scarcely a creature crawls or jumps by without a tale...
...small package"). Now is it really necessary to observe that in this world, as opposed to Dr. Seuss's cuddly creation, what divides Yooks and Zooks is democracy and constitutional government, among other conventions? The principal reason Yooks insist on arming themselves is that the Zooks of this planet have the unfortunate tendency to build gulags (for export too) and to stockpile those nasty intercontinental ballistic bomberoos...
...argument is meant to complement Greer's central claim; that all unwanted children are a tragedy, but that we in the West have far more than they in the East. Therefore, who are we to tell them they must curb their birthrate? We are more responsible for overpopulating the planet than they are--they at least want their children...
...often conflicting interests and their willingness to use ultimate force to defend those interests. It is their huge nuclear stockpiles that make these two countries truly superpowers, and it is the antagonism between them that makes them arm so heavily against each other; peace, and the survival of the planet, depends on the maintenance of a stable balance between the two arsenals...