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...less damaging are the effects on the rain forest's flora and fauna. Perhaps a hundred of the famed parrots that appear on St. Lucia's stamps are believed to be still left. Conservationists estimate that 40% of the vertebrates that have become extinct around the world in recent years have died off in the Caribbean. Scientists can only guess how many species of plants are permanently gone. Such losses represent a tragic assault on the splendid diversity of terrestrial life. They deprive us of genetic varieties that could have been valuable for any number of purposes, from...
...urging Americans to file early; there is no money in the IRS budget for new advertising. The gutted Energy Department was not was not heard from at all this winter in matters of conservation, as it was during the Carter years. Gone, too, is the voice of the almost extinct Consumer Product Safety Commission, which once advertised appeals for safer lawn mowers, chain saws and children's clothing...
...just as well that The Last Unicorn falls short of becoming as animation classic, because seeing such mundane, stereotypic images of unicorns only makes the beasts truly extinct. Such a Saturday-morning-cartoon style of animation cannot sustain a two-hour fantasy. Unicorns, after all, belong in the realm of the imagination...
...final chapter in the saga of the now-extinct Student Assembly was perhaps the most pathetic in a four-year series of sorry episodes. In its last semester, the 96-seat council could only find 55 interested participants. And last May, When the forlorn student government-which this year will be replaced by a funded and centralized one-was to meet for the purpose of disbanding officially the meeting did not even draw a quorum. The assembly had to be buried by telephone; the more dedicated representatives called the absentees to approve its extermination...
...cultural complex in Lewiston, N.Y., she sowed a rice field, wrapped chains around a grove of trees, and near by buried a time capsule containing 40 existential questions. Samples: "Which do you think will prove ultimately more important to mankind-science or love?" "Do you believe mankind will become extinct one day?" In similar performances at a private site in 1968 and at Artpark in 1977, she buried samples of her haiku and other writings...