"The United States and Japan face the most challenging security environment in the history of the alliance," the cable quotes Mr. Campbell as saying.
Why would I willingly engage institutions they considered responsible for most horrendous violations of human rights and the environment in the history of civilization?
Reprinted in Roderick Nash, The American Environment: Readings in The History of Conservation (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1968).
The early evolution of life (>4.1 Ga) and early origin of several important metabolic pathways (phototrophy, methanogenesis; but not oxygenic photosynthesis) suggests that organisms have influenced the Earth's environment since early in the history of the planet (Fig. 4).
The urban built environment is a relatively new phenomenon in the history of human habitation, while nature's most successful processes have been honed over millions of years.
First, the deeper the divergence of the ATGC, the more variation in the history of the environments, and therefore, in the adaptive requirements and the available gene pool, is expected.
"It's the worst thing in the history of our environment!" Isaacs exclaimed when I spoke to him on Wednesday.
As her partner in the store, Maggie Topkis, put it, "This is the worst environment for publishing and bookselling pretty much in the history of publishing and bookselling".
At Pratt & Whitney, the engine manufacturer, Alan H. Epstein, vice president for technology and environment, said, "It's the first time in the history of jet aviation that the world is seriously considering going to a totally new fuel".
Modernized in its new climate- and crowd-control environment, one of the most familiar pictures in the history of art suddenly seemed alien, like vacuum-packed heirloom tomatoes and no-smoking parks.
