Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...skulls and cranium sizes, Leakey goes beyond the cell of paleontology. He uses his fossil discoveries to speculate about the nature of ancestral societies. Leakey pieces together his chips and bones and then tries to pinpoint social and economic attributes of the hunter-gatherer bands that once inhabited the earth...
...Catholic Church was not pitiable; it was malicious and willful. Culpable ignorance, he called it. He loved the sense of his own orthodoxy, of holding out for the purest and the finest and the most refined sense of truth against the slick hucksters who promised happiness on earth and the supremacy of human reason...
...professional opinion that nuclear energy, and nuclear waste in particular, is the single greatest threat to the earth's biosphere. The solution to America's energy problem is conservation...
They are an urban planner's dream: new cities carved out of the raw earth, self-contained, self-sufficient and carefully designed to avoid all the problems that afflict older, unplanned urban centers. In 1971 the Department of Housing and Urban Development began financing 13 such communities,*and that so-called new towns program became one of the decade's most widely publicized Government social experiments. Now the planner's dream has become HUD'S nightmare. Housing Secretary Patricia Harris has announced that the new towns program will be ended, and HUD will abandon financial control...
...bench--to Cleveland. The Red Sox got nothing but money in exchange for Bernie Carbo, the co-spaceman who was known as one of the best pinch-hitters in baseball. Lee quit the team for three days in protest. "It's time we started talking about the earth," he said upon returning...