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...believe that the citizen is extinct in our country. We are joined by the most despicable of ties: a common frustration. I see a return to the bad old days as a permanent danger. Why can't we live where we want? What use is it that we have been given the publishing house and the journals? Behind all this is the threat that they will take it back if we are unruly...
...environment, the better the deer like it." California, the nation's most populous state, also supports the nation's second biggest (behind Texas) deer herd-1,000,000. Pennsylvania has more deer today than when William Penn founded the colony. And in New York, where deer were extinct in 1915, the whitetail population...
Listen to the Body. As practiced at Esalen (named after an extinct Indian tribe), sensitivity training draws upon elements of the inner-directed meditation of Eastern religions and the interaction emphasis of Gestalt psychology. On the theory that modern urban man smothers his feelings under layers of intellectual abstractions and thus loses his sense of wholeness, Esalen President Michael Murphy, 37, a Stanford psychology graduate, also accents emotional release and an awareness of the body. "We have to learn to listen to our bodies if we are ever to enrich and expand our life of feeling," he says...
...prehistoric animals, Ho turned to late Pleistocene epoch (10,000 to 200,000 years ago) fossil remains containing well-preserved collagen. Chemically analyzing the collagen in fossil specimens recovered from Los Angeles' famed La Brea tar pits, he applied his formula and calculated the temperatures of such extinct species as the browsing ground sloth, the dire wolf, the short-faced bear and the saber-toothed...
Thus, he reasons, they should have been able to adapt to the warmer temperatures that heralded the end of the ice age, and probably became extinct for reasons other than climatic changes...