Exercise 48.2

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The end punctuation marks have been deleted from the following paragraphs. Supply the appropriate punctuation marks.

This activity contains 2 questions.

How long have human beings been concerned about population growth If you believe the warnings, we have long been on the verge of overpopulating the earth In a warning written around AD 200, a Roman writer named Tertullian lamented that "we are burdensome to the world and the resources are scarcely adequate to us" The population at the time is believed to have been 200 million, barely 3 percent of today's 5.8 billion He thought he had reason for concern

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

Can a program ever be believed once it stages an incident Sometimes it can NBC's Dateline was not the first network to fake a car crash when it used igniters in its dramatization of the hazards of GM trucks; all three networks had done the same Unfortunately, the public was not told that program personnel "helped" ignite the fire Why did the network do it They did it because of competition for viewers The line between entertainment and news was badly blurred What was the reason for the media error Dateline anchor Jane Pauley replied, "Because on one side of the line is an Emmy; the other, the abyss"

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

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