Word: extinctionism
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I take issue with Paul Karch's statement, quoted in The Crimson on October 15, that being a "Viking" is "an expression of the Neanderthal in all of us." He does the academic community a great disservice by leading it to believe that the vulgar antics of his modern "Atillas...
By the time S. Res. 4 had passed through its first sieve, the Rules Committee, the opposition had made some changes. Among other things, the Veterans Affairs Committee was retained; international economic policy stayed in Foreign Relations; the number of subcommittees on which each committee member could serve was increased...
Harvard paleontologists expressed doubts this week about a controversial new theory attributing dinosaur extinction to periodic drops in the level of the prehistoric seas.
According to the theory, water drainage and land erosion created a homogeneous environment with fewer ecological niches so that fewer new species could evolve. Without new species creation, old species of dinosaurs died without replacement, leading to the extinction of all dinosaurs.
For Morris was not, as his detractors suppose, a daft Luddite with pretechnological dreams of a feudal society sans feudal authority. "It is not this or that tangible steam or brass machine which we want to get rid of," he remarked, "but the great intangible machine of commercial tyranny which...