Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they are intimately aware of what policing the territories is doing to their troops. When the prime minister visited forces on duty in the West Bank earlier this month, a paratrooper told him, "I have to act brutally toward people free of crime, too. I feel humiliated by this behavior...
...incidents involve behavior which displays at one end unintended racial insensitivity, resulting perhaps from lack of awareness or ignorance, and at the other end overt, violent and intentionally hurtful racism. These two incidents and others reported to my office demonstrate how vulnerable this community is, how vulnerable we each are to either engage in or be a victim of racism...
...Higher Education Research Institute is not worried. Astin feels that we need to emphasize the humanities more, so that we can tackle problems like world peace, poverty and bigotry. As he recently wrote in Science, "Our understanding of the physical universe has increased exponentially, while our understanding of the behavior of human beings and of societies has lagged far behind...
Astin is correct--since Plato's time we have not made quantum leaps in our understanding of human behavior. However this is not because of a national de-emphasis or misplaced priorities, but because human behavior may never be "understood" as the natural sciences...
...chemical weapons are scheduled to resume in Geneva under United Nations auspices on Feb. 7. George Bush, for one, promised last week to make control of such arms a major foreign policy objective of his Administration. As the controversy over the Libyan facility vividly demonstrates, however, controlling the behavior of a terrorist state -- and of Western firms willing to do business with such countries -- is not easy...