Word: extinctionism
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UNITED STATES. Now threatened with extinction, to join the Eastern elk and passenger pigeon, are the American alligator, Southern bald eagle, Columbian white-tailed deer, Utah prairie dog and ivory-billed woodpecker, the largest woodpecker in the U.S. Even so, the mainland has a good record compared with Hawaii, which...
A scare story? Not quite. Today, the authoritative "red data book" of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources lists 835 "endangered species and subspecies" that hover on the brink of extinction. Among their habitats and situations:
The tumult and name-calling ended when the latest Nielsen report came in. By its own calculation, CBS had won for the 15th consecutive season-by .2%. "This is the greatest thrill of my 21 years in programming," crowed Mike. In his exultation he added: "I think I could have...
Those who rule the Soviet nation today are well schooled in Lenin's theories of popular democracy, but they have conscientiously avoided any opportunity to put those theories into practice. Notably enough, the most severe political penalties meted out by the present regime are imposed on those who challenge the...
It is necessary to hope though hope is always deluded, for hope itself is happiness and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction's.