Through the IYB, UNESCO actively brought its know-how in the science, education, culture and communication of biodiversity issues to making the IYB a lasting success for the future of life on the planet.
"If one is concerned about the future of life on a biological time scale, it's relevant to have communities away from the Earth, " Rees notes.
In his story, sorcerers and fortune-tellers had to walk backwards since their heads had been twisted 180 degrees, unable to see what is ahead because they tried, through forbidden means, to look ahead to the future in life.
When it comes to topics that are the most over-covered and over-hyped relative to their importance to the quality of life and the future of humanity, there are plenty of candidates to choose from: Oprah, the New England Patriots, windmills.
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Kael wrote as if the future of creative life lay on her shoulders.
The operation has allowed Mr Houghton to look forward to the future and a life he thought was about to end.
With regard to myself, I wish to also devotedly serve the Holy Church of God in the future through a life dedicated to prayer.
Ms Teather added that there was overwhelming evidence that a child's development in the first five years' of their life is the single biggest factor influencing their future life chances, health and education attainment.
The hare hid in the grass, lamented a little in his own way, then tidied his fur, crept through a gap in the fence, and disappeared into the forest, putting aside his recent grief for the sake of future life.
They want to make sure that they have a roof over their heads and that they have the prospects of a better life in the future.
In the near future Learning for Life and Work would become a compulsory part of the post-primary curriculum.
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One of the things that we've done with our NASA "Vision for the Future" is to extend the life of our participation in the Space Station.
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Ibana: Our responsibility towards future generations is mediated by the quality of life on Earth which we shall pass forward to the future in a state that is hopefully better than when we have found it.
The revised cost estimates are due to higher expected future costs, the new life-of-mine plan, and the doubling of royalties by the Zambian government.
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And, in fact, those answers may hint at the direction my life could take in the future.
One of the more obvious fallacies of modern life is that the future will be like the past.
Still - smaller, leaner, with a hefty website to back them up - the successful retailers of the future could prove there's life in the old High Street yet.
While the caviling of Islamist-sympathizers and their lawyers will continue, we had all better hope that the "triage" being sensibly applied today will spare us further, horrific loss of life in the future.
Imagining that public officials are endowed with special powers to see the future and protect us from the vicissitudes of life is a license for tyranny, no matter how well intentioned or ostensibly benevolent its foundation.
In 1986 the BBC launched an ambitious project to record a snapshot of life across the UK for future generations.
What do we currently know about the history and future possibility of life on Mars?
But in the future we might rely on life forms that have never before existed.
David Brooks, one of America's finest political commentators, suggested years ago that his countryfolk lived life in the future tense.
Senior politicians will be on the panel, while the audience will include people with a vested interest in the future of all aspects of life in southern Scotland.
But Celebration also proposes a model for a sustainable pattern of American life in the future, with recycling programmes and Internet infrastucture built in, and educational experiments at the local schools.
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Lo and behold, even the unemployment figures are better today than six months ago, but no one was grabbing onto that, just the future cast of doom, gloom and the end of life, as we know it.
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The rising middle class in China is different from that in the U.S., but they each have their version of quality of life and aspirations for the future of their children.
Since the Patriot Act's adoption, this provision has prevented the loss of life and will surely do so in the future - unless it is allowed to lapse.
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