Word: reportable
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TIME was given an exclusive advance look at the U.N. report, which makes for sobering reading. Its conclusions are divided into assessments of five major types of ecosystems--forests, freshwater systems, coastal/marine habitats, grasslands and agricultural lands--and all five are showing signs of deterioration (see the graphics on these pages). The report's maps and charts capture the stunning scale and character of human impact on the planet. One set reveals the degree to which agricultural lands have been degraded around the world by the buildup of salts and the loss of nutrients; another locates oceanic dead zones caused...
...Development Program, the U.N. Environment Program and the World Resources Institute--will present the first results of this project, a Pilot Analysis of Global Ecosystems. The findings of the $4 million study, called PAGE for short, will be published in the 2000-01 edition of the World Resources Report titled People and Ecosystems: The Fraying Web of Life. PAGE will also set the stage for a larger $20 million Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, scheduled to begin next year. The goal is to answer the most important question of the century: What is happening to Earth's capacity to support nature...
...Rescue units and police responded to Soldiers Field Park after a woman called to report that her friend, who had eaten shrimp six hours earlier, now had red spots appearing on her skin...
Last March, a statistical report issued by MIT admitted subtle gender bias had created unequal treatment for the school's tenured women faculty in the sciences...
...conference continued on Saturday with an address by Nancy Hopkins '64, chair of the committee that wrote the MIT report on the status of women faculty in science...