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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Vallero, Daniel A.    Paradigms lost: learning from environmental mistakes, mishaps, and misdeeds / Daniel  A. Vallero.      p.  cm.    Includes index.

ISBN 0-7506-7888-7 (harc cover : alk. paper)

GE70.V35 2006

363.7 dc22

2005024537

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