Word: preservationism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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In an effort to promote the proper care and preservation of Harvard's library collection, University libraries are now distributing plastic bags to protect books during inclement weather.
For administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill patient [NATION, Dec. 7], Dr. Jack Kevorkian should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. In his stubborn, egocentric wisdom, Kevorkian has become judge, jury and executioner. After I had open-heart surgery 10 years ago, I could hardly...
All his traits fuse with the activist to create a formidable force for the preservation of forest life, which needs protectors. Nearly 60% of the world's tropical rain forests have been lost, and what remains is under extreme pressure from logging and human population growth. More than 90% of...
I ask him why one should not accept the extinction of species as an inevitable natural occurrence. He answers that we are not accepting it; we're inducing it. "I could argue for the economic value of preservation--the biotechnology that leads to the discovery of medicines and so forth...
When he first proposed the idea of forest protection to the Eyak Corp., his fellow board members voted him down, 8 to 1. "They called me a greenie and a tree hugger," he recalls. Undeterred, Lankard gave up his fishing business, set up the Eyak Rainforest Preservation Fund and began...