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According to the speakers, timber wolves are nearly extinct, and qualify for protection under the 1973 Endangered Species Act. Environmental groups nationwide are currently attempting to relocate the wolves to public lands within the Rocky Mountain region, their original territory...
...June 7, 1990, Wall Street Journal opinion piece by Michael D. Copeland, entitled "No Red Squirrels? Mother Nature May Be Better Off," Gould is paraphrased as arguing that 99 percent of all species will become extinct eventually...
They are born. They live their brief life. The fittest of them survive long enough to produce offspring. Over time their descendants evolve, adapting to changes in their environment. Or they fail to adapt and become extinct. They behave, in short, just like living things -- except that they are not flesh and blood but programs that inhabit the memory of a computer...
...founder, Duncan Phillips, was the first American to buy De Stael in depth, and one has only to move to the other floors of this beloved institution to see the context from which De Stael sprang: the Matisses, the Bonnards, the late Braques, the august but now almost extinct line of arcadian modernism...
...Seoul lies another world. There, from a drab, cheerless capital, the self-proclaimed "Great Leader" Kim Il Sung presides over an Orwellian state where the radios have dials that cannot be tuned and loudspeakers broadcast propaganda 20 hours a day into every home. Such totalitarianism is fast becoming extinct everywhere else in the world, but Kim not only survives, he is virtually worshiped by his people...