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Every?ten?minutes,?one?kind?of?animal,?plant?or?insect?(1)?dies?out?for?ever.?If?nothing?is?done?about?it,?one?million?species?that?are?alive?today?will?have?become?(2)?extinct?twenty?years?from?now.?? The?seas?are?in?danger.?They?are?being?filled?with?(3)?poison:?industrial?and?nuclear?waste,?chemical?fertilizers?and?(4)?pesticides,?sewage.?If?nothing?is?done?about?it,?one?day?soon?nothing?will?be?able?to?(5)?live?in?the?seas.?? The?tropical?rain?(6)?forests,?which?are?the?home?of?half?the?earths?living?things?are?(7)?being?destroyed.?If?nothing?is?done?about?it,?they?will?have?(8)?nearly?disappeared?in?twenty?years.?The?effect?on?the?worlds?(9)?climate?-?and?on?our?agriculture?and?food?(10)?supplies?-?will?be?disastrous.?? (11)?Fortunately,?somebody?is?trying?to?do?something?about?it.?In?1961,?the?(12)?World?Wildlife?Fund?was?founded?-?a?small?group?of?people?who?wanted?to?(13)?raise?money?to?save?animals?and?plants?(14)?from?extinction.?Today,?the?World?Wildlife?Fund?is?a?large?(15)?international?organization.?It?has?raised?over?(16)?￡35?million?for?(17)?conservation?projects,?and?has?created?or?given?support?to?the?National?Parks?in?(1?8)?five?continents.?It?has?helped?30?(19)?mammals?andbirds?-?including?the?tiger?-?to?(20)?survive.? When?Stephen?Powelson?was?nine,?his?school?organized?a?(1)?weekly?contest?in?memorizing?passages?from?the?Bible.?Stephen?paid?(2)?no?attention?until?he?was?chided*?for?(3)?not?competing.?The?next?Sunday?he?surprised?everyone?by?(4)?reciting?all?the?passages?for?the?(5)?entire?year.?? As?a?teenager?in?prep?school,?Stephen?took?Greek.?His?teacher?(6)?assigned?21?lines?of?the?Iliad*?to?be?memorized?(7)?in?a?week.?At?the?end?of?the?hour?-?though?he?(8)?insisted?he?paid?full?attention?to?the?(9)?lecture?-?Stephen?knew?all?21.?He?went?on?to?memorize?the?first?(10)?100?lines.?? In?1978,?for?the?first?time?(11)?since?college,?Powelson,?now?60,?had?some?(12)?spare?time.?To?keep?his?mind?active,?he?reread?the?Iliad?and?(13)?discovered?that?h