Given that fact, the timing, and the rate at which the fires moved, the damage to the plant community might not be as bad as we think it is.
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TED DANSON 'Cheers' was great. They paired me up with Shelley Long on this tiny bar set for the final a...
TED DANSON Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbli...
TED DANSON I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming beca...
TED DANSON The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are ve...
TED DANSON Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly i...
TED DANSON We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole respons...
TED DANSON We have a project with Unocal here in Los Angeles, where we as an environmental organization, the oi...
TED DANSON Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone them...
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