Word: dodo
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...blew a unique opportunity in your report on the electric car [BUSINESS, Dec. 15] to expose it for what it really is--a dodo: an extinct, flightless bird whose future exists only in the minds of the bureaucrats and wealthy hobbyists. Real people can't afford it. DENNIS KELLY Costa Mesa, Calif...
...discovered beings millions of years more advanced than us? We may be no more than raw material, food or vermin standing in the way of their exploiting our resources. Why should we expect them to be benign and kinder to us than we were to the now extinct dodo? Perhaps the vast distances of space and the limits of relativity are a blessing. We might be better advised to listen more and broadcast less. RICHARD MARSHALL Tongaat, South Africa...
...under Restic, but with its victory over Yale it also marked the first time the Crimson had ever defeated the Elis with a Georgian in the White House. Harvard finished 3-4 Ivy, 3-6 overall, and it seemed like the Multi-Flex was going the way of the dodo...
...landscape may disappear as well. Local affiliate stations, which have the exclusive right to pick up network shows and distribute them to viewers in their localities, would seem to have no function -- except as suppliers of local news and other community-based programming. The video store may be another dodo bird. When any Hollywood release can be called up instantly on the home screen, a cumbersome system in which people have to trek to the corner video store to rent a tape, then return it a day later, seems like a low-tech anachronism. Film studios might even release...
...such as has not been seen in these parts for years. Maybe we've had too many Presidents with brown-tinted hair and programs distilled from focus groups. Or perhaps cocooning was by its nature the ultimate and final trend, after which no more are biologically possible: like the dodo snuggling into its nest, we have found our evolutionary niche, which turns out to be the couch...