extinction

Personal checks are heading quickly toward extinction as more businesses refuse to accept them and more consumers opt for electronic transactions.

As government regulators switch from crisis-mode to rescue mode, many of the biggest and most successful bailout programs are well on their way to extinction.

But there are plenty of others that are gaining momentum as the economy heads toward a recovery.

Supported by a joint pledge of more than $750,000 from the Smithsonian Institution, Defenders of Wildlife, and other groups, the venture aims to save amphibians from the brink of extinction in the eastern region of Panama....