Word: extinctionism
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Last week Durrell, 48, began a ten-week tour of the U.S. and Canada−his first North American visit−"to spread the gospel among the gentiles of the zoo world" and to drum up funds for SAFE (Save Animals From Extinction), an umbrella group now being set up...
Almost all of the 579 animals that live on the Durrell preserve are in danger of extinction and are treated accordingly. A recently arrived spider monkey that refused to eat ("Apes are the hypochondriacs of the animal world") was finally coaxed into feasting on smoked cod roe. A sulking capybara...
Nearly all the town's 341 subscribers said that they relished cranking their telephones to signal the operator, since someone familiar was bound to be at the other end. The six local operators connect subscribers by name as readily as by number, and the 40 seconds or so it...
In fact, Harris is convinced that only those who believe the "truth" of transactional analysis can win the battle against neurosis. "You have to have absolute faith that T.A. is true; otherwise you'll lose," Harris once told a group he was leading. Speaking more than half seriously, he...
Its annual budget could not pay the expense accounts of a Madison Avenue agency, and its roster of clients is more in the category of "Who's That?" than Who's Who. Yet Public Interest Communications, a nine-month-old, nonprofit San Francisco ad agency, is making a...