Polymers Are Forever. Alarming tales of a most prevalent and problematic substance by Alan Weisman photograph by Andy Hughes THE PORT OF PLYMOUTH in southwestern England is no longer listed among the scenic towns of the British Isles, although prior to World War II it would have qualified. During six nights of March and April 1941, Nazi bombs destroyed seventy-five thousand buildings in what is remembered as the Plymouth Blitz. When the annihilated city center was rebuilt, a modern concrete grid was superimposed on Plymouth’s crooked cobbled lanes, burying its medieval past in memory.
But the main history of Plymouth lies at its edge, in the natural harbor formed at the confluence of two rivers, the Plym and the Tamar, where they join the English Channel and the Atlantic Ocean. University of Plymouth marine biologist Richard Thompson spends a lot of time pacing Plymouth’s historic edge. Smaller, lower-profile fragments, however, were apparently controlled by currents in the water. “Any idea what these are?” Positive Deviance Initiative. Urners : Sermon Preparation Subscription Page.
Water. American Foreign Policy is Broken. June 18, 2007 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. Albert Beveridge was a promising politician in his 30s when he stood up to speak in favor of war and the promotion of democracy to his peers in the U.S. Senate. A historian, Beveridge unabashedly called for the United States to remake the globe. "We will not renounce our part in the mission of our race, trustee, under God, of the civilization of the world," Beveridge proclaimed. Stripped of its more racist rhetoric, Beveridge's 1900 speech to justify the U.S. war and colonization of the Philippines could have been made on Capitol Hill a century later in support of the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the larger "global war on terror.
" The attempt by the Bush administration to expand U.S. military power and "lead in the regeneration of the world" has roots in U.S. foreign policy that extend further back than even Albert Beveridge. The Cold War is over. Money and jobs What about China?