Word: fossilizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pioneer Philo Farnsworth, is the author of Amusing Ourselves to Death, an acclaimed study of the impact of television on society. RICHARD RHODES, who profiled nuclear physicist Enrico Fermi, wrote a Pulitzer-prizewinning tome on the making of the atom bomb. Paleoanthropologist DONALD JOHANSON, who discovered the fossil called Lucy, had a long and bumpy relationship with the Leakey family and used this occasion to break a silence with Richard Leakey that lasted nearly two decades...
...recall with great fondness my first visit to Nairobi in 1970 when Louis ceremoniously led me to the room housing the crown jewels of human evolution. Every fossil took on a mythical cast as he waxed eloquent about how it revealed some magic moment of our origins. Here he was, the grand master, sharing his passion, knowledge and intuition with a new disciple. He was often like that: generous, open, supportive, always trying to win new converts to his way of working, his way of interpreting the past. Born in Kenya of English missionaries, Louis was initiated by tribal elders...
...philosophy of environmentalism has unfortunately been characterized as privileging sequoias and spotted owls over human life and as advocating economically illogical and unviable strategies such as abandoning the car or the combustion of fossil fuels. Tree-huggers and rainbow warriors have been much maligned for their irrational attempts to block human development, and as such the environmental movement has often suffered discredit and marginalization. I am an "environmentalist," yet I can fully comprehend the frustration with which people view the movement...
...years a powerful industry coalition, led by automakers and coal and oil companies, tried to persuade everyone that global warming was nothing to get overly alarmed about. The barons of fossil fuel warned that curbs on emissions of greenhouse gases would destroy jobs without necessarily having a positive effect on our climate. But now, as officials from 180 nations meet in Buenos Aires this week to firm up the Kyoto Protocol, the treaty forged in Japan last year to combat climate change, the forces of opposition have suffered some major defections...
...like a rabbit, and that's worth the whole million. But some freshman from Tennessee? The value's not there." He isn't as specific on which government officials merit the full bounty. But you should save your breath if you notched your bedpost with an assistant secretary for fossil fuels...