Dan-
Competition iel Simberloff, in The Sciences (July-Aug.
1984), The New York Academy of Sci-
And Evolution ences, 2 East 63rd St., New York, N.Y.
10021.
Competition among species is now commonly accepted as one of the chief forces in evolution. But according to Simberloff, a biologist at Florida State University, its impact has been exaggerated.
Simberloff does not challenge Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. But Darwin's notion of natural selection concerned competition within particular...
Dan-
Competition iel Simberloff, in The Sciences (July-Aug.
1984), The New York Academy of Sci-
And Evolution ences, 2 East 63rd St., New York, N.Y.
10021.
Competition among species is now commonly accepted as one of the chief forces in evolution. But according to Simberloff, a biologist at Florida State University, its impact has been exaggerated.
Simberloff does not challenge Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. But Darwin's notion of natural selection concerned competition within particular...
the Bu- reau of the Census in 1890. then, thanks to population build-up on the Pacific coast, it was no longer possible to draw the traditional na- tional "frontier line" beyond which there were fewer than two people per square mile. Yet, many pockets of land where population density was below that level remained-and most have survived for a century. Today, about one-quarter (949,500 square miles) of the United States is still technically "frontier."
About half of this territory,...
it. Seven generations later, Popper observes, Jefferson's predictions seem surprisingly close to the mark.
"After 'Voluntary' Liability: The EPA's Cleaning Up Implementation of Superfund' Carol
L. ~orge,in Boston College Environmental
The Superfund Affairs Law Review (vol. 11, no. 3, 1984), 885 Centre St., Newton Centre, Mass. 02159.
In 1980, Congress passed "Superfund" legislation aimed at cleaning up the nation's toxic-waste dumps. Since then, argues Dorge, a Chicago lawyer,...
Nicholas Lemann, in The Washing-ton Monthly (Oct. 1984), 1711 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20009.
Fifty years ago, documentary photographs the likes of Walker Evans and Margaret Bourke-White captured the national imagination and en- riched Life, Look, and a rackful of lesser popular picture magazines. To- day, writes Lemann, a Washington Monthly contributing editor, that kind of photography is moribund, and the nation is poorer for it.
Photojournalism became a powerful social and political...
the early 1960s, however, photojournalism was on the way out. Once-popular illustrated magazines began to lose readers to TV compe- tition, and Washington had long since lost interest in FSA-like projects. Photographers themselves, meanwhile, began to regard their work as art and their business as self-expression. They began trying to "convey what was behind the lens, rather than what was in front of it," argues Lemann. A leader in the new "art" photography was Diane Arbus (1924-71),...
everyone, used every- one in the daily conduct of life, and something which, moreover, carries most subtly and yet measurably within itself, its vocabulary and syn- tax, the governing assumptions of a society's social, political, and eco- nomic arrangements."
Tragedy for "What Is Happening to Tragedy Today?"
--. bv James Mark. in Journal of Eurooean studies (June 1984), Alpha '~cadernic, Our Times Halfpenny Furze, Mill Lane, Chalfont St.
Giles, Bucks HP8 4NR, England.
Tragedies...
How Hitler Istvan Deak. in The New York Review of Books (~ay31, 1984), P.O. Box 940,Rose to Power Farmingdale, N.Y. 11737.
The dry facts of Adolf Hitler's life (1889-1945) document his rise to power, but explaining how an entire nation could embrace insanity is another matter. According to Deak, a Columbia historian, new schol- arly studies are beginning to provide some answers.
The conventional view is that Germany's tradesmen, shopkeepers, and farmers-all hit hard Germany's economic troubles...
"The French Population Debate" byA French Richard Tomlinson. in The Public Interest
(Summer 1984), 2'0th & NorthamptonPopulation 'Bust'? Sts., Easton, Pa. 18042.
Throughout the Third World, many governments are trying desper- ately to curb population growth. In France, however, national leaders are urging their countrymen to have bigger families.
The French are not alone in facing a population "implosion." Among the nations of noncommunist Europe, only Greece, Ireland,...
"The French Population Debate" byA French Richard Tomlinson. in The Public Interest
(Summer 1984), 2'0th & NorthamptonPopulation 'Bust'? Sts., Easton, Pa. 18042.
Throughout the Third World, many governments are trying desper- ately to curb population growth. In France, however, national leaders are urging their countrymen to have bigger families.
The French are not alone in facing a population "implosion." Among the nations of noncommunist Europe, only Greece, Ireland,...