Word: extinctionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most species breed out serious aberrations like hermaphroditism, but this is not happening in the case of Bothrops insularis. When Dr. Hoge examined pickled specimens collected before World War II, he found a much bigger proportion of normal individuals. Recently, Dr. Hoge went back and collected 68 fresh snakes on...
Extinction in a Station Wagon. As an Orthodox Jew, Author Wouk (who now lives in the Virgin Islands during the winter) is not overly sympathetic to the "improvisations" of Reform or Conservative Judaism, and he finds Orthodoxy hale and hearty despite the stringencies of its demands in the world of...
All through those years, Conant grew more interested in public schools. In the penny-pinching 19305, he saved Harvard's ailing Graduate School of Education (now one of the best) from extinction. In 1936 he ordered a new Harvard degree: Master of Arts in Teaching, uniting education courses with...
And Sukarno himself is less a strongman than a symbol. He must rule in partnership, and only two organizations-the army and the Communist Party-have the efficiency and administrative knack to help him govern. In naming his ten-man "inner" Cabinet last week, Sukarno clearly chose the army. Not...
The eyes were serene, the lips often smiling, but the words were blunt. "The glorious achievements of Chinese rule in Tibet," he said, were aimed at nothing less than "the extinction of the Tibetan race." In 1951 he had signed an agreement with Peking, but only to save his own...