Word: extinct
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...picture of the Early Hunters emerges. They were immigrants; the scientific consensus is that they came from Asia via Siberia, then dispersed east and south. When they arrived is uncertain. However, it is clear that they maintained a nomadic existence. And they were probably of Mongoloid stock, not currently extinct types like the Neanderthals...
...stocks and bonds," says Collector Nagy, who is a mechanic by trade. He has turned down offers of $1,500 to $2,000 for his prize card, a 1910 Honus Wagner. One of Reuss's most treasured cards is the first Bob Feller, issued by the now extinct Leaf Gum Co. in 1948. It was worth $35 until several other originals turned up, dropping its price to only...
...celebrate Earth Week (this year's version of Earth Day, spread over April 18-24), New York's Bronx Zoo set up this ominous "Animal Graveyard." Each of the 225 tombstones commemorates a species that has become extinct since 1600-e.g. the New South Wales barred bandicoot, Labrador duck, Malagasy great tortoise and Haitian long-tongued bat. Wildlife experts say that at least 75% of the extinct creatures vanished as a result of human activity...
...long history of evolution, 100 million species of plants and animals have inhabited the earth. Of these, 98% are now extinct, unable to survive the challenges of a changing environment. Man himself may face such a life-and-death test. Unlike his predecessors on the evolutionary ladder, he has the capability to meet it?and to fail it even more grandiosely than did creatures with lesser brains and imaginations...
...counterculture in throwaway America is not dead, dying or extinct. It is undergoing a rebirth, starting over again from its internal, self-generating life force: a rebirth, going over our history, finding out where we went wrong. New people will arise to solve the problems of the second generation of the revolution. The cosmic lid is back on the pressure cooker...