Word: speciesism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The murder-mystery thriller is a theatrically endangered species. Seasons go by without one, and there have been seven lean years since the last dandy scalp tingler, Sleuth. Deathtrap is a congenial successor-literate, amusing, booby-trapped with scarifying surprises, a brimming tumbler of arsenic and Schweppes.
Say you're a young Ph. D., fresh out of graduate school and looking for work in a comfortable university setting. Or perhaps you're a 63-year-old tenured professor of Obscure Studies. What do the two species have in common? Plenty.
There are actually three species of marijuana, but laws in the United States only designate one of these species--cannabis sativa--as an illegal plant. The other two species--one of which is psychoactive--are not technically illegal, Richard E. Schultes '37, Mangelsdorf Professor of Natural Sciences, said last night...
That does not mean the evolution of intelligence has ended on the earth. Judging by the record of the past, we can expect that a new species will arise out of man, surpassing his achievements as he has surpassed those of his predecessor, Homo erectus. Only a carbon-chemistry chauvinist...
The history of life suggests that the evolution of the new species will take about a million years. Since the majority of the planets in the universe are not merely millions but billions of years older than the earth, the life they carry-assuming life to be common in the...