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...that the animal is functionally extinct," says August Pfluger, head of the Zurich-based Baiji.org Foundation, which in December co-sponsored a six-week, 2,000-mile (3,500-km) survey of the Yangtze without finding a single remaining member of the critically endangered species. The dolphin, one of only four exclusively freshwater species in the world, may have the unhappy distinction of being the first aquatic mammal to go extinct in more than half a century - and the first large mammal driven into oblivion by environmental degradation...
...More troubling, however, was losing the benevolent criminal activity associated with my early teenage years. Bumming cigarettes lost its appeal once my friends and I could legally purchase them; standby activities like sneaking out and skinny-dipping went extinct as kids went off to science camps and spent their summers abroad...
...idea of communists soldiering on in the world's second-largest economy more than 15 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union may invite comparisons to Japanese soldiers stranded on remote Pacific islands who thought that World War II had never ended. But the JCP is far from extinct. It claims some 400,000 members, and garnered 7.3% of the vote-from 4.92 million voters-in the most recent legislative elections in 2005. "The JCP is probably the most successful non-ruling communist party in Asia, if not the world," says Lam Peng Er, a research fellow...
...last link to a vanished era. Seeing Dingell hobbling along the halls of Congress on his cane or cupping his half-good ear to hear a colleague is like spotting an elderly mammoth alive in the natural-history museum. As long as he's not extinct, he's formidable. Dingell comes from a time when Congress did big things, like Medicare and the Voting Rights Act, as a matter of course. Key Congressmen were known as "bulls," and they didn't look to the White House for permission slips or marching orders. Dingell's first oath of office...
...going to speak with the students themselves, says a lot about the social distance Harvard students feel between one another. Finally, this incident has raised the important issue of subconscious racism in American in general. The issues stemming from racism, whose legacy in this country is far from extinct, manifest themselves everywhere, from the housing market to the workplace to college campuses. The discussions of the last week have been valuable not just for rethinking our own community but also for challenging Harvard students to think about our society’s most pervasive problems. As an academic community, Harvard...