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...foot of Pacific Heights. Once a teeming singles scene, Union Street and its environs now offer a wide variety of trendy, late-night dining spots. The growing clientele of Yuppie couples at neighborhood drinking hangouts has muted the action, but Yussies (young unescorted singles) are not quite an extinct species. Perry's, which brought the singles to Union Street 15 years ago, is still worth a scan, and Rocker Boz Scaggs has opened a bar and country-cookin' restaurant across the street. A couple of blocks west on Fillmore, there are chance encounters aplenty at the Balboa Cafe...
...irritation aside, there seems to be something larger at stake: respect for books. And students do more than deface books; some go through bound volumes of magazines and rip out the articles that interest them. It is sad to think that the love of books is extinct at one of the most prestigious universities in the world...
Having been subject to the Des Moines Register for some seven years, I say that if the Register is in the top ten, print journalism is very nearly extinct...
...these collections have become increasingly more important as animals become extinct or as environments change. We have things from Miami where now you see skyscrapers. As man alters the enviroment, the collections become more and more important...
Along with the Chinese birds are two great auks, an extinct relative of the penguin. "No other museum has more than one," Paynrwe says...