Word: extinctionism
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For four months he fought head winds and towering swells, sometimes discovering that after hours of struggle, he had not moved an inch, and always knowing that capsizing in the 45[degree]F water would mean "starting to die within minutes." By landing triumphantly in Buzzards Bay, Wheeler brought the...
McKibben can sound preachy; he and his wife agonized over having a child and decided to have just one ("the light of my life"), after which he had a vasectomy, which he describes at great length. Journalist Margaret Talbot, who erupted at this in the New Republic last week, is...
With so much talk of sex in the air, the extinction of the hapless, sexually naive kid seems an inevitability. Indeed, kids today as young as seven to 10 are picking up the first details of sex even in Saturday-morning cartoons. Brett, a 14-year-old in Denver, says...
Some attractions are being adjusted. A parade of cast-member "creatures," expected to run twice daily, was still not ambulatory a fortnight ago. The Jungle Book and Lion King shows were getting final tweaks. Dinos in Countdown to Extinction were to be given scarier lighting and infusions of bad breath...
The irony is that Animal Kingdom sees itself as joining the ranks of the new, state-of-the-art Uber-zoos, like those in the Bronx, San Diego and Washington, whose mission is to help save species from extinction by breeding and studying them in captivity and, when possible, returning...