Unhappily, the combination of superstition and anthropomorphism skews an otherwise skilful and engaging piece of reporting that raises intriguing questions about man and nature.
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"This is literally a turning point in the relationship between man and nature, " said molecular biologist Richard Ebright at Rutgers University, who wasn't involved in the project.
Extending that principle, perhaps with special bridges that can support local vegetation and thus allow animals the illusion of an uninterrupted habitat, might be a cheap way of letting man and nature rub along a bit better.
Gone was the age of man harnessing other men, and on the rise was the age of man harnessing the power of nature through science and industry to advance human life.
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The development of consumer content technology that automatically assists consumers in doing this could lead to new fortunes as well as the protection and retention of content that might otherwise be lost to the vicissitudes of nature and man.
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Yet this has less to do with Ms Secrest's abilities, which are considerable, and more to do with the nature of the man and the material at hand.
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Our Western heritage has been one of control, of man against nature, of man needing to tame nature, and create as his likes and as his needs dictate regardless of consequences.
"It's man versus nature, and unfortunately man is winning out, " says Pam Iacono, a Fairfield, Conn.
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"Tolkien is remembered by Rose as a gentle man who loved nature, and who, when he felt tired while out walking, would just lie down and have a nap, " he said.
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The causes are man made and have come to dominate Nature's global nitrogen cycle.
The more so since the spectacle of a claw beside a customs man might suggest a grasping and rapacious nature, which no client would wish implied, whether there was evidence for it or not.
Advocates say the lake and dam are arrogant examples of man's attempt to corral nature to improve the quality of life and standard of living.
It is true that there have been immense improvements in material conditions during the past century, but they are quite external and they leave man's fundamental nature no better than it was before.
He merely appealed to our carnal nature and demonized Romney by ratcheting up covetousness sown into the nature of man.
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So even the apparently simple parable of Herr Puntila reveals the conflicting strands of human nature and the inability of fallen man to become whole again.
That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation.
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In this state where one does not make mistakes and does not violate the laws of nature man has the right to "play the Creator" in his life on earth.
Mr Moran said the words were reminiscent of the early sections of Neruda's great 1945 poem Heights of Macchu Picchu, which contrasts the "spontaneous and ceaseless self-renewal of Nature with Man's impermanence".
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Mr Assad, now 69 and by nature cautious, may not be the man to take the drastic action needed.
Architecture's highest calling for Sullivan was to put man back in touch with his democratic instincts and the cosmic forces of nature.
We had a group of Founding Fathers who knew the scriptures, who knew the wisdom of the ages, who knew that there was such a thing as human nature, who knew that man was prone to err and government ought to be constructed on the basis of that knowledge, but that man could rise to great heights when inspired and when given the opportunity.
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The railway is a Soviet triumph of man over nature, built in an inhospitable land of extreme winter cold and mosquito-cloud filled summers.
But for Styron the Holocaust was an act of man, however terrible, and writing was a means to control and mediate the nature of the world.
In December 2002 a pivotal Nature article pointed out that junk DNAmay help explain the differences between man and mouse, since the two creatures share most of their genes.
Because of the nature of the incident, police became involved and also spoke to the man.
Meanwhile the erosion continues, and the villages downstream suffer from floods which owe as much to the hand of man as to nature.
But while it's exciting to contemplate the giving nature of Gates and Buffett, if their true desire is to help their fellow man, they should hoard every penny of their significant wealth.
Man-made technology is great, but Mother Nature is the greatest inventor of them all -- and scientists are discovering new ways to take advantage of the tools found in nature.
The book's adjective would emerge as "Complete" in the 18th century, and its subtitle, "The Contemplative Man's Recreation, " is indicative of Walton's nature.
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