Word: compassion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...left hand shakes, and he hobbles with a cane, the result of bone-replacement surgery. Asked about his health, he offered an "Oh, so-so" to TIME. It is thus with increased urgency that John Paul has presented himself, the defender of Roman Catholic doctrine, as a moral compass for believers and nonbelievers alike. He spread through every means at his disposal a message not of expedience or compromise but of right and wrong; amid so much fear of the future, John Paul dared to speak of hope. He did not say what everyone wanted to hear, and many within...
Finally, North will cease to exist as an arbitrary compass direction, and instead honor three generations of a family who have contributed greatly to the College. Unfortunately, many House residents are clinging to the name 'North' like a compass to a magnet...
...fifth of Russia's total oil production is lost -- partly to theft, but much of it through leakage. Komineft, the company whose oil is now polluting the northern terrain, is one of the most consistent offenders. For six years, says Stephen MacSerraigh of the oil industry magazine Nefte Compass, "the Komineft pipelines have averaged about 10 leaks a month. If you fly over them, you constantly see puddles of oil on the ground...
Aware of this dilemma, the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) has sought to aid us in our desperation. As everyone knows, the CUE guide offers a convenient numerical compass in our arduous selection process...
...comes the most startling discovery yet. According to a recent report in Science, researchers have found discrete locations in the brain of an intricate system that serves, among other things, as the human moral compass. Largely in the prefrontal cortex, it is where reason is applied to complex social situations, where our personal scales of justice do their weighing. It may come as a shock that this highest, most spiritual faculty is just as identifiable and in some ways as physically vulnerable as, say, a knee joint. But vulnerable it is. One's moral fiber can literally snap...