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Word: speciesism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mexican beaches were the first to be hit. They were spotted last week with giant puddles of crude oil and thick clusters of tar balls. The Mexican government mounted an emergency airlift to carry newly hatched Atlantic ridley turtles, an endangered species of giant sea turtle, from the polluted beaches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Pancakes and Mousse off Texas | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

It is very simple to convince oneself that it is O.K. to cause suffering and death in other species, other races, other ethnic ;roups, or early periods of gestation. Every individual seems to draw the distinctions in his own mind of who belongs in the protected group and who is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 23, 1979 | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

The main legions of portable fans are mostly young and predominantly-but not always -black or hispanic. They do not quite add up to a subculture, but they may represent the rise of a new species of radio fan. Their ears are tuned in constantly to what they call the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Portable Music for One and All | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

The next encounter with the other species came only a few steps later, almost drawing the Gossage-Johnson instinct right out of my skin. At this stand, peddlers selling shirts proclaiming "Yankee fans bite the apple," and "The only good Yankee is a dead one" were quickly closing in on...

Author: By Lorren R. Elkins, | Title: Confessions of a Yankee Fan | 7/20/1979 | See Source »

Conservationist Felipe Benavides president of the Peruvian branch of the World Wildlife Fund, warns that the decision will ensure the species' doom. But government officials, notably Antonio Brack, who worked with the World Wildlife Fund until he was tapped to head the Special Project for the Rational Use of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Hapless Vicu | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

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