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...maturation process. One of them, growing in a fluid-filled sac called the follicle, quickly establishes itself as the first among equals. In a normal cycle, only that single egg will be released to the Fallopian tubes for possible fertilization. About 1,000 more will wither away and disappear. So although a woman may have 400,000 eggs to start with, the number she can effectively use is closer...
...baidarka changed markedly under the influence of the Russians and then began to disappear with the end of the sea-otter hunts in the last century. After World War II, the Aleuts switched to motor-powered craft. In his efforts to reconstruct the original kayaks, Dyson, based in Bellingham, Wash., relies on early accounts of explorers and sea captains...
...number of different tribes around the world makes it impossible to record or otherwise preserve more than a tiny percentage of the knowledge being lost. Since 1900, 90 of Brazil's 270 Indian tribes have completely disappeared, while scores more have lost their lands or abandoned their ways. More than two-thirds of the remaining tribes have populations of fewer than 1,000. Some might disappear before anyone notices...
...grandfather was executed under Stalin, an experience that made her both fearful and contemptuous of apparatchiks who act one way "when it is to their advantage" and another when it is not. "Sometimes I feel that they are not faces but masks," she says. "And the masks will suddenly disappear and I can see quite clearly the faces of the people who informed on my grandfather...
...much better track record than the pessimists. But few experts would deny that as the human population grows, threats to the food supply become ever more dangerous. And mankind is losing the weapons to fight those threats, as it allows the irreplaceable diversity of the plant kingdom to disappear...