Word: extinctionism
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JOHN MAYALL'S BLUES BREAKERS CRUSADE (London). To each his own music, but to hell with anything that isn't blues, is the message of this album. Blues are not as dead as most jazz, but John Mayall's crew sings and writes as if they were...
His exposure came only after an inquisitive gambling-syndicate man from New York hired a private detective to learn how the young big spender was bankrolling his betting. Reporter Dick Carlson of San Francisco's KGO-TV got wind of the quiz, did some probing on his own account...
Unlike insecticides, the study finds, the defoliant herbicides do not concentrate in animal tissue. As a result, dangerous effects on animals and humans are "unlikely." But temporary defoliation over widespread areas could threaten the existence of some animal species that depend on foliage for food and concealment and are already...
One of the world's rarest furs is the North Pacific sea otter, for the simple reason that except for an occasional poacher's pelt, none has been available for more than half a century. Lustrous dark brown and noted for their durability and warmth, sea-otter skins...
To discount his hypothesis, Martin believes, it would only be necessary to identify a major wave of extinction anywhere in the world during the Late Pleistocene prior to man's arrival. "To date," he says, "such evidence has not been found."