Word: fauna
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most desperate effort of modern times to extend a family is that of Joy and George Adamson, who have this pet lioness-as well as an ark's worth of other African fauna-instead of children running around their game preserve in Kenya. The world could well have been spared yet another rendering of the Born Free legend, but it must be admitted that NBC'S new series (Monday, 8 p.m. E.D.T.) at least avoids the queasier questions raised by Mrs. Adamson's elaborate efforts at surrogate motherhood. Elsa, the Adamsons' lioness, has turned into...
...discussed at length in the journal Physics Today. Basically, O'Neill proposes building completely self-contained space communities in the form of cylinders some 16 miles long and four miles in diameter. The cylindrical worlds would contain water, an atmosphere, earth-style farm land, fish, birds and other fauna. They would even have their own earthlike gravity, in the form of centrifugal force produced by rotation of the cylinders. With these and other amenities, the inhabitants (eventually as many as 200,000 people in each) could easily live, work and play on the cylinders' inner surfaces. For power...
...marvelous book about everything that went into the financing, building and provisioning of whaling ships, the men who sailed and lost them, the "overweening pursuit of wealth" that drove them to riches and ruin. Allen writes poetically but with a naturalist's restraint about the climate, flora and fauna of the forbidding, fickle northwest corner of Alaska. As few writers have, he describes with nose-to-nose empathy its native Eskimos, an incredibly robust and good-natured people inhabiting one of earth's coldest hells...
There were 2,000 people, sure. The real draw, however, at Ethel Kennedy's 15th annual Pet Show at Hickory Hill was the fauna-everything from dogs to two worms that were entered as twins. "We want to keep politics out of this show," said Ringmaster Art Buchwald, but there was a slip-up in the Unusual Pet category. Two "Watergate bugs" got a blue ribbon. A chameleon named Richard Nixon took second prize...
Over the past few months I have come increasingly to consider myself a modern successor to the late Charles Darwin. Both of us early in life came to weird places where by closely examining the mutant native fauna we began, I think, to unravel a few of those major questions life poses us. There are other parallels to explore: I have often been told I look like a beagle. While it seems self-evident that the city of Cambridge is a Galapagos for humans, I am still left with the word "Archipelago." Until I find a dictionary that defines Archipelago...