Word: extinctionism
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Schell acknowledges this in a neat and compelling conclusion to the first section of his book: "Once we learn that a holocaust might lead to extinction we have no right to gamble, because if we lose, the game will be over, and neither we nor anyone else will ever get...
In this eloquent chapter, Schell draws on ancient and modern philosophy and theology-from Socrates and the Bible to Karl Jaspers and Alexander Solzhenitsyn-to support the second premise of his book: neither God nor man has yet decided what "the fate of the earth" will be. "Since we have...
Now the Checker is headed for extinction. Last week Checker Motors Corp., which has been producing the cabs in Kalamazoo, Mich., since 1922, announced that it would phase out production in July. In 1981 about 3,000 of the taxis were built, and the company lost $448,000.
"Within one year NASA's [the National Aeronautics and Space Administration] research and development program will be 80 percent militarized." Webb said, adding that the civilian space program is facing "virtual extinction."
Jakob is a character invented by Russell McCormmach, 48, a professor of the history of science at Johns Hopkins University. "After years of work on rather standard books of history for the specialist," says McCormmach, "I decided to try a kind of spin-off from scholarly material. Enter Victor." But...