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Many ecologists, economists, and policy makers have long assumed that the only way to protect natural resources is top-down ownership by a centralized government create a national park, for example—or, at the opposite extreme, assign market values to ecosystem products or services.

Great modern orchestras -- in Cleveland for example or at the Metropolitan Opera -- manage to be transparent and powerful at the same time.

One good example, or at least an innovative one, of where this all may be heading can be found this week over at Popdust, a music news site.

Both warned Americans about naive political errands, either abroad via an overly-interventionist foreign policy, for example, or at home through policies on the radical left.

Playing anthems for winners in international competitions – at the Olympic Games, for example, or at Formula One grands prix – seems relatively harmless, although the major tournaments in golf and tennis manage quite well without them.

Alarms are triggered when dangerous amounts of carbon monoxide are generated within a given time -- when the level remains at 70 parts per million for 180 minutes, for example, or at 400 parts per million for 15 minutes.

It recommends using hearing protection whenever loud noises are unavoidable, at an airport job, for example, or predictably, at a rock concert.

This allows you to edit a document and make a call, for example, or look at your calendar and a web page at the same time.

The reader should be enlightened by examples or at least suggestions of more detailed molecular genetic mechanisms.

Former commanders in chief may have faced reverses in prosecuting the cold war -- John F. Kennedy and the Bay of Pigs, for example, or Ronald Reagan at Reykjavik.

Of course, there are legal campaign tactics that most of us would regard as unethical -- appealing to racism, for example, or hammering at the private conduct of an opponent's family members.