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...biology." Angiosperms, which embrace everything from tropical palms and northern oak trees to Kentucky bluegrass and backyard rose bushes, had come to dominate the plant kingdom by the end of the Age of Reptiles, 75 million years ago. Indeed, angiosperms provided the essential food supply (grains, fruits) for the advent and survival of mammals, including man. But, Tidwell argues, no truly authenticated fossils of angiosperms more than 100 million years old have ever been found. How could angiosperms have risen to dominance in the relatively short period, on the evolutionary clock, of only 25 million years? If he could prove...
...advent of nuclear warfare has added a new chapter to the age-old paradox of the morality of war. Conventionality, not humanity, is the new criterion to rationalize the act of killing...
...West Coast Redstocking Manifesto reports that "our bodies are male-occupied territory." And Laura X (she has abandoned her surname) says: "The pill is the final pollution, the exact analogue of DDT, of gadget-trapping you into functions, not organic wholes. Men have become no more human since its advent: according to many young women who have made that unenviable leap from private property to public property, they treat women worse than ever...
...year earlier; American's load factor in early 1970 was 49.6% v. 50.1% in 1969. Airline costs of all varieties are climbing at an accelerating pace. TWA's costs for rental and construction of ground facilities have gone up 15% in the past two years. The advent of the jumbo jets has added another twist to the spiral. Landing fees for a 707 jet last year were $330 in Paris and $738 in London; now it costs $808 to bring a 747 down in Paris and $1,675 in London. Pilots who fly 707s for Pan Am-which...
Buddhists and Bikinis. The advent of Tokyo's hodosha tengoku ("pedestrians' paradise") touched off a fierce sales battle to lure customers into shops. One store on the Ginza offered to decorate the street with 3,000 potted petunias. Another used bikini-clad girls to dispense 10,000 servings of ice cream to passersby. While the streets were enlivened by antiwar protesters, beggars and robed Buddhist monks, news cameramen recorded the scene from helicopters whirring about in the suddenly clear blue skies. At street level, concentrations of lethal carbon monoxide dropped from 10.5 parts per million...