Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...used that remedy successfully several times. For example, a 12-ft.-high portion of the Roman wall that once encircled Londinium forms part of the basement wall of a new office building; pedestrians peek in through sidewalk windows. Allowing the Rose, the only Elizabethan theater ever discovered, to disappear once again sounds like the stuff of a Shakespearean tragedy. "Replicas of Elizabethan theaters are being built everywhere," observes actor Ian McKellen, "but this is the real thing, and you don't throw away the real thing...
...arboretum is involved in several conservation projects, one of them collecting plants from rain forests in Southeat Asia before they disappear. This project, funded by a grant from the National Geographic Society, is being done with help with the Herbarium Bogoriense, the national herbarium of Indonesia, the Sarallka and National Museum of the Philippines, as well as herbariums in Thailand and Paupau New Guinea...
...indulgence sellers . . . We're not the same as you./ We're not the heroes of big polemical battles/ So don't follow us." Another number, the feisty Reptiles, all but declares open rebellion: "We'd be glad, glad, glad/ If some time, any time/ All these reptiles . . . Would disappear forever." Sukachev dislikes assigning meaning to his songs. "I like to stick images together," he explains. "Other people can tell you what they're about...
...faculty between the people supporting what I call the University position and the people supporting the radical position," he adds. "People who were mad at me for having called in the police, and people who thought that I did the right thing. And that wasn't going to disappear quickly. It may not even have disappeared to this...
...Without legal restrictions, these personal revelations might eventually be shared among companies and government agencies. Just like a credit rating or an arrest record, a DNA analysis could become part of a person's permanent electronic dossier. If that happens, one of the last vestiges of individual privacy would disappear...