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In parts of Montana, salt concentrations in soil water, have reached those double those of seawater.
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Some people have much more pull than other people. But when I say that the public has ultimate responsibility, I'm not saying…
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Take air quality in the United States today: It's about 30 percent better than it was 25 years ago, even though there…
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Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in…
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Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being murdered as…
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In contrast [to trees and fish], oil, metals, and coal are not renewable; they don't reproduce, sprout, or have sex to produce…
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The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder…
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Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of healthy peasants…
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It is a travesty, in my mind, for the state and local governments on the one hand to expect the Federal government…
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I am myself persuaded, on the basis of extensive study of the historical evidence, that... the severity of each of the contractions…
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The remarkable social impact and economic success of the Internet is in many ways directly attributable to the architectural characteristics that were…
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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.
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Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the…
— Bertrand Russell
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