Word: extinctions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Railpax seems likely to save some passenger trains from becoming extinct, but it will hardly work miracles in restoring long-haul service, which attracts mainly sightseers. Few passengers are still willing to spend three days traveling coast to coast, or two days from the Northeast to Texas. The legislation empowers Transportation Secretary John Volpe to decide what routes Railpax must serve at the outset. He will probably order continued service over heavily traveled corridors, particularly between Boston and Washington. Some long runs that draw varying amounts of patronage-for example, the Northeast to Florida, Chicago to New Orleans...
...cities is more important than saving caribou in Alaska" [Aug. 3]: More important to whom? The validity of this question would become clear if we could set ourselves apart for a few minutes and look at Homo sapiens as just another animal species. Then ask ourselves if humans became extinct tomorrow, who would miss them? The birds, the fish or the caribou? Would it be more likely only the rats and the disease bacteria that are able to live...
...studied ego strength among working-class children, is fed up with scholars of "alienation," who "never analyzed Mexican Americans, kids from Montana, black kids or those from Appalachia." If they did so, he says, they would find that "the old-fashioned family pulling together is by no means extinct in this country." Coles is delighted to meet "16-year-old men and women growing up with a definite sense of identity, just working hard and trying to get a paycheck, somehow being responsive to their parents?and not going to a shrink five times a week...
Mauna Kea, an extinct volcano towering high above the island of Hawaii, has not erupted in at least 10,000 years. But lately the barren, treeless area near the 13,796-ft. summit has been the scene of another, less menacing kind of activity. After three years of grueling work, construction crews are putting the finishing touches on the highest astronomical observatory on earth...
...cosmetics industry. In the Pacific Northwest, the sockeye salmon is proliferating, thanks to artificial incubation and man-made channels that allow the fish to bypass barriers on their way upriver to spawning lakes. Conservationists are also bringing back the takahe, a large New Zealand bird that resembles the extinct dodo, and the vicuña, a llamalike Peruvian animal that has been overhunted for its luxurious wool...