Word: extinctionism
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This resurgence of nationalist sentiment comes at a bad time for England. While efforts to preserve Scottish and Welsh culture come only just in time to prevent their extinction, it is a vain hope that smaller units of economic and social organization will be able to keep their heads above...
Pandas are popping up in the unlikeliest places, and so are polar bears, tigers, alligators, orangutans and dozens of other endangered species. They are seen on the fronts of men's ties, on the backs of women's slacks and peering from inside snuffboxes. The animal images are...
The McLuhan Effect: While the socalled "Gutenberg Man" (he of the printed page) has not yet followed the Java Man to extinction, his demise appears well on the way. Edmund Burke's famous query, "Who now reads Bolingbroke?" can today be shortened to "Who reads?"
In the 1960s, New England fishermen harvested some 700 million lbs. of cod, flounder and haddock annually. Last year they netted only 375 million lbs. Some fish appear to be nearing extinction: the New England haddock catch has shriveled since 1960 from 112 million lbs. to only 7 million lbs...
No word could be less appropriate to a description of this foreigner's sensibilities than "alert." He moves through a series of bizarre dreams interspersed with memories of two episodes: a menage a trois involving his psychiatrist friend, Peter; and a parallel affair on a pleasure cruise, with a young...