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"The Snark is a poem about being and nonbeing, an existential poem, a poem of existential agony. The Bellman's map is the map that charts the course of humanity; blank because we possess no information about where we are or whither we drift. The Snark is, in Paul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wonderland Without Alice | 1/11/1982 | See Source »

"We give him high grades for intelligence and integrity. We think he's so good, we're working to save his job." In fact, of all the officers whose departments have been targeted for severe cuts or extinction, Bell has emerged with the most popularity. He has accomplished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reagan's Cabinet: Mixed Grades | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

Davis unbraids the twistings of society in order to make these strands more comprehensible. He finds the promise and generative force of a system in its self-extinction. As Mark asserts. "The purpose of the Church is to become obsolete." Davis adds, "Whether that will ever happen is secondary, but...

Author: By Aldrich N. Potter, | Title: A World of Ordered Chaos: Behind the Lines With Bill Davis | 10/29/1981 | See Source »

Now, threatened by the Reagan Administration's budget cutters, this scientific assault on the cosmos may come to a halt. At a meeting in Pittsburgh last week, astronomers warned that the cuts will mean "extinction" for the planetary program. These words were echoed by Bruce Murray, director of Caltech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Clouds over the Cosmos | 10/26/1981 | See Source »

Ehrlich, a professor of biological sciences at Stanford University, and his wife Anne, a biological research associate, have carefully documented their book, and it is also fascinatingly readable--an all-too-rare combination. Extinction has the abundant facts and examples of a textbook and a bibliography of more than 50...

Author: By James S. Mcguire, | Title: On the Precipice | 10/8/1981 | See Source »

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