Houston, texas became home to
A. NASA Mission Control
B. The Main NASA shuttle launch center
C. The United States' nuclear arsenal
D. The Pentagon

cutting down of the rainforest

polisit can also mean a body of citizens. in modern historiography, polis is normally used to indicate the ancient greek city-states, like classical athens and its contemporaries, and thus is often translated as "city-state". the body of citizens came to be the most important meaning of the term polis in ancient greece.