Word: extinctionism
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Dealing with the Peking rulers is frustrating because they are so implacably doctrinaire. They call us all lackeys of "Wall Street capitalist imperialism," lumping together indiscriminately Democrats and Republicans, professors and public servants, even the executive and legislative branches, all of us due for extinction by the laws of Marxist...
"My feeling about islands is not normal," confesses Author Russell, who was born on an island-New Zealand's South Island-and who, like sea birds feels uncomfortable nesting anywhere but on rock castles moated by the deeps One summer, his spirit choked by 15 years of urban life...
The author, who earlier wrote The Great Auk, laments the fate of the passenger pigeon, whose species numbered in the millions before man trapped, bludgeoned and shot the bird into extinction.
In contemporary America, however, the royal raptor has about the same status as a clay pigeon. With the cynical and inaccurate excuse that it is a men ace to both man and beast, the golden eagle has been poisoned, trapped, nest-robbed, and pursued in planes by hot-shots taking...
Seized by Carols. Working with a team of acoustical engineers, Wisconsin's Dr. Francis M. Forster and his colleagues determined just what songs, just what instruments, just what rhythms caused Morton to have an epileptic seizure. Hooked up to an electroencephalograph, their patient listened to music with one ear...