Word: beaverisms
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...programs thrust under the education rubric, according to a study by the Washington-based Center for Media Education, were Super Mario Brothers (cited for demonstrating the importance of "self-confidence"), The Jetsons (for teaching kids what life might be like in the 21st century) and Leave It to Beaver (for promoting the values of "communication and trust...
They decided to start fitting female beavers with the contraceptive Norplant, in the hopes that the beaver population would stabilize and then return to normal levels. It's already been tried successfully on skunks, and veterinarians in Montana are optimistic about the chances for similar results with the beavers...
Last summer, environmentalists discovered that beavers were proliferating out of control. According to Wildlife 2000, a Colorado environmental group, the beaver population may have reached 12 million, owing to the declining popularity of hunting and fur coats...
What would you guess they proposed? Allowing hunters to kill off some of their numbers? Encouraging furriers to use more beaver pelt? Of course...
...1950s it was the beatniks, staging a coffeehouse rebellion against the Leave It to Beaver conformity of the Eisenhower era. In the 1960s the hippies arrived, combining antiwar activism with the energy of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. Now a new subculture is bubbling up from the underground, popping out of computer screens like a piece of futuristic HYPERTEXT (see margin...