Word: extinctionism
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In the U.S. last week, foreign affairs experts like former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger and Senator John McCain voiced their exasperation with the North. They insisted that the regime's latest violations had gone beyond the realm of diplomatic debate, and they called for tough sanctions against Pyongyang and...
In spite of this gerontocracy, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints remains vibrant. Its sedulous missionary work has made what seemed to be a quintessentially American faith extraordinarily successful both at home and overseas. The church has nearly 9 million members, up from 5.6 million in 1984...
But the department's brush with extinction--which galvanized students, faculty, and nationally renowned linguists--spurred a debate that will continue to face Harvard in the future: How does the University assess the validity of an academic field and determine its status in the curriculum?
In response to your report "How Man Began" ((SCIENCE, March 14)), I would note that the nearly 2 million-year age, reported as the key breakthrough in dating hominids in Java, used to be found in textbooks of the 1970s and early '80s. But later years of investigation by teams...
By the late 1980s, many kinds of fish were verging on "commercial extinction" -- they were still around, but not in great enough numbers to supply fishing boats. In some cases, countries have agreed on fishing bans until stocks recover. Last February, for example, six nations reached a tentative pact to...