Word: extinctionism
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THE FOSSIL RECORD IS clear. Time and again during the nearly 4 billion years that life has existed on Earth, it has been assailed by global catastrophes that have caused the wholesale extinction of animals and plants. Over the past decade evidence has been mounting that many of these calamities...
The great Left Bank establishments, such as Les Deux Magots and Le Flore, thrive by serving up literary nostalgia to tourists; even off the beaten track, visitors still find the city bristling with humble neighborhood cafes and their newer manifestation, the wine bar. But among the natives, the statistics of...
Not too long ago, the U.S. semiconductor industry faced extinction. After dominating the worldwide market since the invention of the computer chip in 1958, American manufacturers were devastated by foreign competition during the past decade. Led by the Japanese, low-cost Asian copycats undercut prices and mowed down U.S. chipmakers...
None of this means that smokers need fear extinction anytime soon. Cigarettes are still highly profitable, as the governments of France, Italy and Japan know, since they monopolize or control state tobacco industries. France's SEITA earned $2.3 billion in sales revenues last year. Cigarette consumption generated $6.1 billion in...
But Bill Clinton's rise is also the story of a single-minded candidate with a strong sense of message, an indefatigable will and an intuition for the irrational in politics. He is, as adviser Harold Ickes says, "his own campaign manager." He deserves credit for wise decisions such as...