Word: extinctionism
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We are not in quite such extremis. But we are in a situation of critical danger. Newly discovered documents in Kabul confirm that al-Qaeda was working on chemical and biological poisons, and the group was eagerly pursuing materials to build an atomic weapon. No one doubts bin Laden would...
ABBA will survive the ban, but Afghan musicians fear some forms of music are threatened with extinction. The archives of traditional Afghan folk songs at Kabul Radio, for example, are being destroyed. The sounds of silence, after all, are more reassuring to many governments than voices that have the power...
Like Arafat, Peres's own political position is in large part dependent on the survival of some kind of peace process, too. As an architect of Oslo, he too wants to maintain his place in history as a leader who won security for Israel at the negotiating table. And like...
I can't help thinking of attacks by sharks as their revenge for our overfishing some shark species to the point of near extinction and for entangling and slowly killing them with factory-fishing drift nets that sweep the seas. GILBERT SCHWARTZ Aventura, Fla.
By that time, however, Wilson had moved on. Drawing from his deep knowledge of the earth's "little creatures" and his sense that their contribution to the planet's ecology is underappreciated, he produced what may be his most important book, The Diversity of Life (1992). In 424 pages he...