According to a controversial essay titled " The Death of Environmentalism " ( Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, 2004 ) American environmentalism has been remarkably successful in protecting the air, water, and large stretches of wilderness in North America and Europe, but these environmentalists have stagnated as a vital force for cultural and political change.

According to Linehan, Father Ted was a character created by Mathews for Paul Woodfull, when the three men performed together as The Joshua Trio on the comedy circuit in Ireland.

According to Gardner, the Surgenesons readily talked about the paranormal with him ; the patriarch of the family, Ted Surgeneson, believed that fairies were living in his garden and would say " I can often feel they're there, and sometimes I've seen them ", though he readily admitted the possibility that it was all in his imagination.

According to Moe Howard's autobiography, the Stooges split with Ted Healy in 1934 once and for all because of Healy's alcoholism and abrasiveness.

According to Ted Conover in Rolling Nowhere ( 1984 ), as many as 20, 000 people were living a hobo life in North America.

According to Special Counsel Ted Sorensen, Kennedy regarded McNamara as the " star of his team, calling upon him for advice on a wide range of issues beyond national security, including business and economic matters.

According to Ted Morgan, " Paul Touvier was assigned to expedite packages for prisoners of war, which got him into a spot of trouble, for he was caught removing the chocolate and the cigarettes from some of the packages.

According to Ted Morgan, " He knew he couldn't stay in the Lyons area, so he went to Montpellier, in the south of France, and bought a boarding house.

According to Ted Morgan, " Shortly after 8 A. M., with gendarmes stationed around the priory walls, Recordon knocked and showed his search warrant.

According to On the Issues and NARAL, Ted Stevens had a mildly pro-life voting record, despite some notable pro-choice votes.

According to former Voice of America Polish service director Ted Lipien, " Czechowicz is perhaps the most well known communist-era Polish spy who was still an active agent while working at RFE in the late 1960s.

According to translator Ted Woolsey, a large portion of the game's script was cut out in the English localization due to space limitations and a lack of sequential text.

" According to the Associated Press, Murkowski bought the land from two developers tied to the Ted Stevens probe.

According to author and journalist Ted Conover, a large percentage of modern-day hobos are ex-cons, and violence is not uncommon among the transient population.

According to Howard, even in the heyday of his stage career, Ted refused to save money and spent every dime of his salary as fast as he earned it.

According to Chuck Neubauer and Ted Rohrlich writing in the LA Times in 2004, Maxine Waters ' relatives had made more than $ 1 million during the preceding eight years by doing business with companies, candidates and causes that Waters had helped.

According to Ted Blackman, Canadian fans were basically understanding of Team Canada's actions as being provoked while the team was under duress.

According to an April 1 – 4, 1993, telephone survey of 1, 011 people by the Times Mirror Center for the People and the Press ( now Pew Research Center ), before the Frasier premiere and the Cheers finale, Sam Malone ( Ted Danson ) was voted a favorite character by 26 percent, and Frasier Crane and Lilith Sternin were voted favorites by 1 percent each.

According to Ted, she finds pleasure in sex only with Benny, because of his large penis.

According to McNamara, the duties performed by O ' Donnell in the film are closer to the role Sorensen played during the actual crisis: " It was not Kenny O ' Donnell who pulled us all together — it was Ted Sorensen.

According to Dr. Ted Worley, author of A History of The Arkansas State Teachers College, the UCA teams from 1908-1919 were referred to by many names, including: Tutors, Teachers, Pedagogues, Pea-Pickers, and Normalites.

According to the stipulations, Austin's manager Ted DiBiase had to leave the WWF.

According to network general manager Ted Bergmann, WDTV brought in $ 4 million a year, which was more than enough to keep the network afloat.

According to historical journalist Jonathan King, " Ted Smout's legacy is in the hundreds of newspaper articles written about him, the book he wrote Three Centuries Spanned, hours and hours of video footage instructing Australians not to get involved in conflicts like Iraq or Afghanistan.

According to Barry Switzer, it was Charles “ Spud ” Cason, football coach at William Monnig Junior High School of Fort Worth, Texas, who first modified the classic T formation in order “ to get a slow fullback into the play quicker .” Cason called the formation “ Monnig T ”.

According to The Chicago Tribune News Service, State Atty. Gen. Stanley Mosk of California has devised a series of questions which the joiner might well ask about any organization seeking his money and his name: 1.

According to Nate Silver, the advent of this playoff series, and especially of the wild card, has caused teams to focus more on " getting to the playoffs " rather than " winning the pennant " as the primary goal of the regular season.

According to Milligan, the columns had been an influence on the comedic style of his radio series, The Goon Show.

According to the Official Buffy Watcher's Guide, Whedon wrote the pilot to the TV series as a sequel to his original script, which is why the show makes references to events not occurred in the film.

According to the book, the prophet, exiled in Babylon, experienced a series of seven visions during the 22 years from 593 to 571 BC, a period which spans the final destruction of Jerusalem in 586.

According to Husserl, this view of logic and mathematics accounted for the objectivity of a series of mathematical developments of his time, such as n-dimensional manifolds ( both Euclidean and non-Euclidean ), Hermann Grassmann's theory of extensions, William Rowan Hamilton's Hamiltonians, Sophus Lie's theory of transformation groups, and Cantor's set theory.

According to Cay Van Ash, Rohmer's biographer and former assistant who became the first author to continue the series after Rohmer's death, " Fu Manchu " was a title of honour, which meant " the Warlike Manchu.

According to the show's producer, Sam Lovullo, the ratings showed improvement with these classic reruns ; however, the series was finally canceled in 1993 at the conclusion of its 25th season.

According to Nicholas Delbanco, UM English Professor and Director of the Hopwood Awards Program, " This is the oldest and best known series of writing prizes in the country and it is a very good indicator of future success.

According to the same index series, even " dedicated short bias " funds had a return of − 6. 08 % during September 2008.

According to Dave Filoni, supervising director of the animated television series Star Wars: The Clone Wars, the look of the Police ' droid is based on the appearance of the Keystone Kops.

According to a personal statistics file displayed on a computer screen in the series, Edison is 6 ' 2 ", weighing 180 pounds.

According to the U. S. National Center for Health Statistics, as well as a 2006 series in the Charleston ( West Virginia ) Gazette, medical examiners listed methadone as contributing to 3, 849 deaths in 2004.

According to the PBS series, the most common " non-black " mix is English and Scots-Irish.

According to the foreword of Ubik: The Screenplay ( by Tim Powers, a friend of Dick's and fellow science fiction writer ), Dick had an idea for the film which involved " the film itself appearing to undergo a series of reversions: to black-and-white, then to the awkward jerkiness of very early movies, then to a crookedly jammed frame which proceeds to blacken, bubble and melt away, leaving only the white glare of the projection bulb, which in turn deteriorates to leave the theater in darkness, and might almost leave the moviegoer wondering what sort of dilapidated, antique jalopy he'll find his car-keys fitting when he goes outside.

According to their accounts, the huge rent in the Andes, the Pongo, is about five or six miles ( 10 km ) long, and in places not more than 80 feet ( 25 m ) wide, and is a frightful series of torrents and whirlpools interspersed with rocks.

According to co-creator Berman, he and Piller had considered setting the new series on a colony planet, but they felt a space station would both appeal more to viewers and save money that would be required for on-location shooting for a " land-based " show.

According to series ' producers it was intended to be enjoyed by the entire family.

According to both Roddenberry and an NBC press release, this was the justification for six additional episodes being ordered by the network for the series ' second season.

According to the 2009 film Star Trek and the prequel comic series Star Trek: Countdown, Romulus ( and presumably Remus ) is destroyed in 2387 by a star going supernova.

According to The Star Trek Encyclopedia, the registry number " NCC-1701 " was devised by Matt Jefferies, art director of the first Star Trek series, inspired by an old science fiction cover that Gene Roddenberry liked, with a starship flying through space.

According to Kawamori, his pitch for the series was simple: " if Macross was robotic mecha and love songs, why not a story about robotic mecha and divining powers?

According to The Prisoner: The Official Companion to the Classic TV Series, however, the series was originally supposed to run longer, but was canceled, forcing McGoohan to write the final episode in only a few days.

According to Macnee in his book The Avengers and Me, Rigg disliked wearing leather and insisted on a new line of fabric athletic wear for the 5th series.

According to the official accident report, after the first officer made his initial rudder pedal input, he made a series of alternating full rudder inputs.