Word: snails
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mail has helped me to reduce my phone bill, but will never eliminate it completely--sometimes, I crave the sound of a human voice. A computer can't duplicate the distinctive handwriting in a "snail mail" letter. Messages pile into the e-mail "mailbox" mechanically, their arrival times their primary distinguishing characteristics...
Unlike the snail darter, which only a militant ecologist could love, whales are inherently irresistible. People crowd by the millions into aquariums and theme parks to watch belugas and killer whales go through their paces. Tens of thousands risk seasickness each year to join whale-watching cruises. Songs of the Humpback Whale, a record of cetacean squeals and groans first released in 1970, sold 100,000 copies that year and has remained a fixture in New Age record bins...
...conservation, however, just as clearly as Band Professor of Science P.O. Wilson does in his recent Diversity of Life. Beginning with some real-life trouble in Tahiti, this message carries explicitly through Gould's first three essays, ending with a reflection on the loss of the limpets, a snail whose shell "looks like a Chinese hat of the old caricatures." Through Gould's superb interweaving of history and biology, the limpet becomes a poor pitiable and yet complex organism, with symbolic meaning for other endangered species...
...notoriously slow walkers when they get arrested. They are told to take tiny mincing steps as they walk to the paddy-wagon, and the police are not supposed to forcibly drag or carry someone who is walking to the paddy-wagon, even if they are traveling at a snail's pace...
...however you may scoff at the campaign to save the snail darter, environmental concerns about natural resource depletion are not contrary to the interests of American business, because businesses like the auto industry are only viable as long as we have enough of the resources their products consume...