Word: fauna
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lonely proctors will have to rely on visits from standard dormitory fauna: spiders, roaches, and mice. Dunster ants may visit intermittently, but they never call first...
...film, written by Keith A. Walker and Corey Blechman and directed by Simon Wincer (TV's Lonesome Dove), has a no-fault recipe for success. Start with Jurassic Park's fondness for huge, dangerous, pet-worthy creatures and its cunning use of special effects to make the fauna realistic. Add a dollop of Hollywood eco-mania, portraying the park owner as a predatory capitalist who would kill Willy for the insurance money. And wrap this around the summer's favorite icon: the fatherless boy who teaches everyone else -- surrogate parents, adult friends and a nearby cetacean -- how to be human...
Enter Robin Read, the campus judicial inquiry officer, who is long on authority but woefully short on brains. After her Orwellian questions about the possibility of Jacobowitz having "racist thoughts" got her nowhere, Ms. Read drew on her pitifully deficient knowledge of the fauna of the world...
Recently, the increasing number of pleas for human respect for flora and fauna have drawn on deep emotions and the moral imperative of conservation efforts. But until now, Agassiz Professor of Geology Stephen lay Gould has remained peripheral to the conservation fray, scoffing at what he calls the " shibboleths of the movement" and the "Catharsis" of any description of ecological deterioration...
...Ninety-nine percent of all the species that ever lived are now extinct," Wilson read. "The modern fauna and flora are composed of survivors that somehow managed to dodge and weave through all the radiations and extinctions of geological history...