Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many students and intellectuals, inveighing against the "power structure" and the "Establishment," have been loud in their condemnation of America's commitment to space. It has been ridiculed by such authorities as Science Editor Philip Abelson as a "moondoggle," by a congressional critic as a "garish spectacular." Indeed, considering...
I had been putting off reading Lowry's novel, partly because it was "about Mexico," and could be found prominently displayed on the paperback racks in all the Sanborn's in Mexico City. And, too, there was something irksomely cultish about the Lowry fans I had met. They talked of...
scription of the school's condition. Bands of pickets roamed the campus, seeking to prevent nonmilitant students from entering classrooms. Although his predecessors had been reluctant to use police to restore order, Hayakawa-backed strongly by a majority of the trustees of California's state colleges and by...
FROM the moment when living organisms appeared in the seas billions of years ago, they seemed driven by an instinctive urge to move beyond their own environment. Out of the dark waters they groped across aeons, toward the light and land and air. Like those remote ancestors, man, too, has...
Unequal Blood. Because armadillo quads develop from the same fertilized egg, they have identical genes. Thus, according to accepted theory, each inherits the same characteristics from its parents. Any differences between "identical" quads, or triplets or twins-in armadillos or any other animal, including man-have long been explained away...