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...similarly sweeping, erudite, sharply argued, richly footnoted and fun to read. It's also highly persuasive. The view that environment is paramount began, he says, with the philosophers of the Enlightenment: John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Rene Descartes and John Stuart Mill. And it was reinforced in the 1950s by Harvard psychologist B.F. Skinner, who said that all human behavior was simply a set of conditioned responses...
...DIED. RAY CONNIFF, 85, composer and bandleader whose breezy arrangements of popular hits such as Besame Mucho and Just Walkin' in the Rain epitomized the lounge sound of the 1950s and 60s; in Los Angeles. Despite their poor critical re-ception, Conniff's recordings have sold 70 million copies and become the sonic staple in elevators and supermarkets worldwide...
...headquarters in Toulouse and took away documents. An Airbus spokesman says the company doesn't comment on legal affairs. Sabena was in trouble for years. Founded in 1923, it flew routes across Europe and within the Congo, Belgium's African colony, and grew rapidly in its late-1940s-and-1950s heyday. Then came the end of the colonial period, the 1970s fuel shocks, labor strife and mounting losses requiring regular government bailouts. By the 1980s Sabena was being lampooned as a bottomless pit. An attempt at restructuring in 1982-83 brought some respite, but in the rapidly changing world...
...years scientists have discovered at least two creatures once thought to be extinct that are now making a comeback. But the challenges facing the Iberian lynx are particularly dire. One reason for the lynx's dramatic decline is starvation - the unintended consequence of a failed ecological intervention. Since the 1950s, Europe's rabbit population - the lynx's main food source - has twice been hit by debilitating diseases. Myxomatosis decimated the rabbits after a French doctor introduced it in the 1950s to prevent the animals from eating his crops; and viral hemorrhagic pneumonia did the same in the early 1980s when...
...Hong Kong is experiencing a high suicide rate and high unemployment. Do you feel that the city itself is suffering a serious depression? Yes, it's very, very worrying. In the 1950s, we were very poor, but still we had this fighting spirit, so we made progress because we had a goal and we saw that we were reaching that goal. But now we have fallen and it's much more difficult to climb up again...