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Wilson contends in The Diversity of Life that homo sapiens have initiated a sixth mass extinction as a result of environmentally irresponsible development...

Author: By Heather M. Leslie, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: E.O. Wilson Reads at The Inn | 10/14/1992 | See Source »

Unfortunately, Reiter is wrong in interpreting this situation as some kind of fight for survival between the human species and the rest of nature. Saving the environment is not equivalent to crucifying our humanity. However such conservatives would like to deny it, Homo Sapiens are a part of nature and subject to nature's laws...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Destroying Nature is Suicide | 3/2/1992 | See Source »

...common perception is that the only people who oppose environmentalist laws are greedy industrialists and arrogant Darwinians convinced of Homo sapiens' innate superiority. In fact, the dissenters are more likely to be working-class Americans, like the loggers in the Northwest who are losing their jobs because virgin forests they cut are the habitat of the endangered spotted...

Author: By Jendi B. Reiter, | Title: I Lost My Job to an Owl | 2/24/1992 | See Source »

Tuesday, Feb. 18: Cruising at 4 and 9:15p.m. Homo Promo at 6 p.m. Hunger at 7:15p.m...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Everywhere But Harvard | 2/13/1992 | See Source »

These are oversimplifications, but facts are facts: America's national savings rate declined by 58 percent during the 80s. And anyway, Hollywood loves oversimplifications. So it's no surprise that an avalanche of cinematically correct movies rumbled out of La-La Land in 1991, dedicated to the proposition that Homo Eightitatus was an obnoxious, Mammon-worshipping egotist. In Regarding Henry, it took a bullet in the head to turn the 80s lawyer into a compassionate human being. In The Doctor, it took a bout with cancer to cure the 80s doctor of his own chronic self-absorption. In Hook...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Father of the Bride--A Remake With Remade Message | 2/6/1992 | See Source »

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