Word: speciesism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many perfectly legitimate problems have delayed construction of the mighty Dickey-Lincoln dam, a $690.3 million hydroelectric project on the St. John River in northern Maine. Among them: lack of money, environmental protests that it would flood a wilderness area and doubts about the benefit it would bring. But one...
As trade has flourished, the supply of wild ginseng has decreased-some experts estimate by as much as 20% during the past decade. Rising prices have encouraged even more ginseng digging, and this has further depleted supplies. So the Government is considering putting wild ginseng on a list of endangered...
For most of the human species' existence, the delivery of babies has been the exclusive prerogative of women. It was only at the turn of this century that U.S. physicians, most of them then male, decided to put the delivery business into masculine hands.
The burning question which we are all trying to answer, including the sociobiologist yarn spinners, is: Will the human species be doomed to destroy itself?
Decorous sexual pursuit, though, is merely an excuse for more than the usual typhoon of Shavian ideas, the torrential flow of blindingly bright words. Shaw steadily sounds his pet themes: the chicanery of politics, the corruptive power of money, the degrading stench of poverty, the servile dependencies of marriage and...