Word: preservationism
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Chance Encounter. That possibility is admittedly small. Traveling at a velocity of seven miles a second, Pioneer could not reach the nearest star in less than 80,000 years and might never fly close to a star orbited by inhabited planets. But the longer the 6 in.-by-9 in...
In November 1963 Rothschild and five other people formed the Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference, and gathered about 30 conservation organizations to aid its cause.
The most recent decision, handed down late last year by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, decided in Favor of the Federal Power Commission and Consolidated Edison. The petitioners--Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference, Palisades Interstate Park Commission, the City of New York, the Sierra Club and its Atlantic Chapter. Wilderness...
Comparisons with The Catcher in the Rye are inevitable, simply because all novels about youth in flight are still measured against Salinger's. But what such a weighing shows is chiefly that Yglesias' tone-far more detached than Salinger's-is completely his own and that Holden...
We in America are very weary of the cycle of wars that seems to infinitely go on, for causes no one believes in, causes not worth the deaths; and war has come to be seen as the pure expression of aggression or blindness or pride. Peace is there to be...