Word: third
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...press made a big deal about the way this author chose to live his life. That just kills me, because I just wish I could be this guy. The author, J.D., is really old now, something like 80 years old, and lives with his third wife, a nurse who is only 30. Peggy says he had some very strange habits, like drinking his own urine, which sounds really gross but is actually just part of some self-cleansing ritual, and she says he practiced Christian Science, Scientology and homeopathy, which is fine with me as long as he doesn...
...cannot have a better choice now. It's a disgusting situation. If the Constitution permitted Bill Clinton to run for a third term, he would, sullied as he is, win the election - maybe in a landslide. The stupid thing is that he would deserve it, and so would...
...show up in official statistics. The following year, when Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso tried to become the first chief executive in 30 years to visit the northwestern state of Acre, the forest was burning again. Cardoso was forced to cancel his trip. Now Nepstad estimates that fully one-third of the remaining dense forest in the Brazilian Amazon will be vulnerable in the near future. The deforested area could grow big enough to swallow Alaska and California combined. And soon: during the past two decades, El Ni?os, which set the stage for fires, seem to have become stronger, more...
...city of Bel?m and Bras?lia, 58% of the forests disappeared in a 100-km swath on either side of the road. The paving of 1,460 km of highway BR-364 between the city of Cuiab? in Mato Grosso and Porto Velho in Rond?nia caused the disappearance of a third of the forest bordering the highway in just 15 years...
...cleared land on the cheap. So the devastation continues to creep forward. All over the Amazon, I saw vast areas of degraded land where before there was a virtually unbroken expanse of trees. In all, the Amazon contains some 550,000 sq km of deforested land, one-third of which has been abandoned...