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...cannot wait for natural selection to change him, some scientists warn, because the process is much too slow. Yale Physiologist José Delgado likens the human animal to the dinosaur: insufficiently intelligent to adapt to his changing environment. Caltech Biophysicist Robert Sinsheimer calls men "victims of emotional anachronisms, of internal drives essential to survival in a primitive past, but undesirable in a civilized state." Thus, by his own efforts, man must sharpen his intellect and curb his aboriginal urges, especially his aggressiveness...
...This is the greatest thrill of my 21 years in programming," crowed Mike. In his exultation he added: "I think I could have elected Humphrey." Over at NBC, Paul Klein snorted: "They didn't win the season. They won their season. This is what McLuhan called 'the dinosaur effect.' CBS has blown to its biggest size just before extinction." Industry evolution has indeed swung toward the Klein emphasis on demographics. In February, Dann's CBS superiors overruled him on the 1970-71 schedule, choosing to replace several of his high-rated hits with series that would...
...ugly bulldozed countryside. Improved technology and advancing production have made life increasingly complex, frantic and wearing. Complaints are rolling in -not only from youthful rebels but also from the supposedly silent majority Middle Americans, to say nothing of scientists and politicians. Urbanologists fret about cities swollen to dinosaur dimensions that defy efficient management and create immense social costs through crime, congestion and drug addiction. Ecologists raise the specter 'in a planet made uninhabitable by the pressures of a rising population. Some environmentalists go so far as to advocate a no-growth society; they call upon rich nations to welcome...
...hers, Gustav F. Ingwerson, a Denver inventor, painter and plastics designer, died of potassium cyanide poisoning. Ingwerson's will left less to his family than expected. He did bequeath small amounts of stock and an assortment of personal possessions-including a cuckoo clock, a color TV and a dinosaur bone-to Galya and her two children. Galya is now charged by Denver police with forging that will. She pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity...
...fall of 1884, when he heard that dinosaur remains had been discovered in a stone quarry near Manchester, Conn., Yale University's Othniel Charles Marsh, a pioneering paleontologist, rushed off to see for himself. Sure enough, there were the fossilized bones of a small (7-ft.-long) creature that was later identified as Ammosaurus major, an inhabitant of the area 200 million years ago. But Marsh was already too late. The dinosaur's front half had already been carted away; the brownstone in which the fossils were encased had been cut into blocks and cemented into...