Word: rain
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...story is no better outside the U.S. Efforts to come to grips with global climate change amount to a desultory drift from conference to conference, without international leadership or any agreement about what should be done. The destruction of tropical rain forests continues unabated. All around the world, the expectations of Earth Day have given way to enervating debate and procrastination...
Financial pressures have led many developing nations to continue shortsighted policies that squander natural resources. In Brazil the appointment by President Fernando Collor de Mello of outspoken conservationist Jose Lutzenberger as Secretary of the Environment raised hopes that the burning of the Amazon rain forest would be halted. But environmentalists are still waiting for Collor to prove that his commitment to saving the Amazon is more than public relations. "Lutzenberger has not presented one significant change in internal policy," says Fabio Feldmann, the only Brazilian congressman elected on a green platform...
...addressed a major solid-waste problem by switching from polystyrene to paper wrappings for its fast foods. Conoco decided to use double-hulled tankers in an effort to reduce the risk of oil spills, and it has made a commitment to lessen the impact of its exploration operations on rain forests and other sensitive ecosystems. The Houston-based oil company made the happy discovery in Gabon that shrinking the size of drilling areas and roads to minimize damage to forests saved money as well as trees...
Count on Awakenings, written by Steve Zaillian, to mop up at Oscar- $ nominations time. Any movie about mental disturbance (One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Rain Man) is likely to touch Academy members, not so much because it treats a serious issue as because it parades the performer's craft. To watch De Niro shrink into the shadow of catatonia is to be made aware of his great gifts of body control, of withdrawing into character, of seeming to be. It's an awesome show that reveals more about De Niro than about the man he is playing. Like...
...stunning admission came as Darci Alves da Silva, 23, and his rancher father, Darly Alves da Silva, 54, went on trial in the Amazonian town of Xapuri last week for the murder of Francisco ("Chico") Mendes, the Brazilian rubber tapper and defender of the rain forests who became an environmental martyr after a single shotgun blast killed him in 1988. Asked by the judge if he "carried out" the murder, Darci answered, "I confirm...