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Word: speciesism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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As the Forest Service rangers stealthily approach, an unsuspecting Mexican laborer named Pedro Villa Garcia, 51, stands in a clearing. All around him the hillside is freshly terraced, irrigated by black plastic hoses and dotted with iridescent green cannabis. Villa Garcia peers down the path. Is that a black bear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Busted! | 8/4/2003 | See Source »

The way I see it, dogs had this big meeting, oh, maybe 20,000 years ago. A huge meeting - an international convention with delegates from everywhere. And that's when they decided that humans were the up-and-coming species and dogs were going to throw their lot in with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Dogs and Men | 7/16/2003 | See Source »

Robyn started us off slowly. She got us a border collie, Hugo, when our son was about 6. She knew that would appeal to me because the border collie is the smartest species on the planet. Hugo could 1) play outfield in our backyard baseball games, 2) do flawless front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Dogs and Men | 7/16/2003 | See Source »

LIFE CYCLE Females hunt for standing water in which to lay their eggs. Four stages follow, which vary in length, depending on species

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bzzzz...Slap! | 7/7/2003 | See Source »

By 1772, Franklin was openly questioning the morality of slavery. In an unsigned letter to the London Chronicle, he asked readers whether it was absolutely necessary to sweeten their tea with slave-produced sugar. Could such a "petty pleasure...compensate for so much misery produced among our fellow creatures, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slavery's Foe, at Last | 7/7/2003 | See Source »

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