1 Totally, without light and subjected to intense pressures hundred of times greater than at the earth’s surface, the deep-ocean bottom is a hostile environment to humans, in some ways as forbidding and remote as the void of other space.
2 Basic to any understanding of Canada in the 20 years after the Second World War is the country’s impressive population growth.
3 Undoubtedly, the good economic conditions of the 1950’s supported a growth in the population, but the expansion also derived from a trend toward earlier marriages and an increase in the average size of families.
4 Although most of these claims are not supported by scientific evidence, the preponderance of written material advancing such claims makes it difficult for the general public to separate fact from fiction.
5 The desperate plight of the South has eclipsed the fact that construction had to be undertaken also in the North, though less spectacularly.
6 The new accessibility of land around the periphery of almost every major city sparked an explosion of real estate development and fueled what we now know as urban sprawl.
7 Accustomed though we are to speaking of the films make before 1927 as “silent”, the film has never been, in the full sense of the world, silent.
8 Coincident with concerns about the accelerating loss of species and habitats has been a growing appreciation of the importance of biological diversity the number of species in a particular ecosystem, to the health of the Earth and human well-being.
9 Science is built with facts just as a house is built with bricks, but a collection of facts cannot be called science any more than a pile of bricks can be called a house.
10 Aside from perpetuating itself, the solo purpose of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters is to “foster, assist and sustain an interest” in literature, music and art.