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It is estimated that one-third of all reef-building corals, a third of all fresh-water mollusks, a third of sharks and rays, a quarter of all…

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People tend to focus on the here and now. The problem is that, once global warming is something that most people can…
It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what…
It is estimated that one-third of all reef-building corals, a third of all fresh-water mollusks, a third of sharks and rays, a…
In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches.
Zalasiewicz is convinced that even a moderately competent stratigrapher will, at the distance of a hundred million years or so, be able…
Somewhere in our DNA must lie the key mutation (or, more probably, mutations) that set us apart—the mutations that make us the…
Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it’s not clear…
What's the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions if, in the end, all we're willing to do…
In a poll commissioned by Time and CNN, two-thirds of American parents said they think that their children are spoiled.
Letting things slide is always the easiest thing to do, in parenting no less than in banking, public education, and environmental protection.…
Parents want their kids’ approval, a reversal of the past ideal of children striving for their parents’ approval.
It doesn’t much matter whether people care or don’t care. What matters is that people change the world.

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Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated. — Norman Ralph Augustine
Head Start is especially important to Latino children. Latino children make up more than one-third, 34 percent, of all those eligible for… — Joe Baca
In 1980, Atari was bringing in around two billion dollars in revenue and Chuck E. Cheese's some five hundred million. I still… — Nolan Bushnell
I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry. — Jimmy Carter
It's all a big hoax, honey. I never wrote a song in my life. I get one-third of the credit for recording… — Elvis Presley
He [Will Rogers] was America's most complete human document. One-third humor. One-third humanitarian. One-third heart. — Damon Runyon
If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare… — Alphonse de Lamartine
In my 45-year career as an investment counselor, humility did show me the need for worldwide diversification to reduce risk. That career… — John Templeton
According to the Tax Foundation, taxes now consume more than 38% of the average family's budget. That is more than is spent… — Daniel J. Mitchell
Coral reefs, the rain forest of the ocean, are home for one-third of the species of the sea. Coral reefs are under… — James Hansen
Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the… — Dean Rusk

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