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...Florida. Having spent much of this century channeling, damming and diverting Everglades water for urban and agricultural use, state and federal politicians have watched with growing alarm as these alterations threw the ecosystem into a tailspin. Wading-bird populations have plummeted; sport and commercial fish catches have fallen; 68 of the Everglades' resident species, including the manatee and the panther, have become endangered; and the capacity of the system to store water has shrunk even as human demand for it grows...
...this transition will not happen by itself--too many entrenched interests stand in the way. Automakers often talk green but make only token efforts to develop green cars because gas-guzzling sport-utility vehicles are hugely profitable. But every year the U.S. government buys 56,000 new vehicles for official use from Detroit. Under the Global Green Deal, Washington would tell Detroit that from now on the cars have to be hybrid-electric or hydrogen-fuel-cell cars. Detroit might scream and holler, but if Washington stood firm, carmakers soon would be climbing the learning curve and offering the competitively...
...head the list of scorers who will return next season. In 1999-2000, the Crimson ended its season in frustration when it lost to Dartmouth in the conference semifinals and missed out on a bid to the AWCHA Final Four. Next season, when women's hockey becomes an NCAA sport, those players will have a chance to lead Harvard back to the national title game, which...
When Ravelstein becomes ill and starts declining toward death, Chick realizes that the biographical task he had taken on as sport, never believing he would outlive his subject, has turned earnest indeed. Ravelstein is what he finally, after the passage of some duly noted years and difficulties, produces. This is a book, in some sense, about the writing of a book...
...Boxing is still a great sport, if it's handled correctly under the rules and regulations that are good for it," he says. "It's not right for a group of men to say that they're going to have a different championship, which several promoters have done...