Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...great red hills stand desolate, and the earth has torn away like flesh. The lightning flashes over them, the clouds pour down upon them, the dead streams come to life, full of the red blood of the earth. Down in the valleys women scratch the soil that is left, and the maize hardly reaches the height of a man. They are valleys of old men and old women, of mothers and children. The men are away, the young men and the girls are away. The soil will not keep them anymore...
...substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth...
Words overheard at a New Age spirit ceremony? No, the silent prayer is the product of the Pentagon Meditation Club, a group that meets at lunchtime every Friday to foment inner peace and goodwill on earth. So far 75 Defense Department employees have taken part, from copier technicians to a Navy captain. "Be all that you can be" was surely never meant like this...
...test subjects in experiments. Why? Severely mentally retarded people are incapable of analytical thought. Yet something stops us from considering them as valid research subjects. We seem to feel that there is something inherent in being human that makes us more "worthy" of life than the other species on Earth...
However, we should not stop using unwilling animals in our experiments just because the results are unreliable, but because it is a horrendous practice. It is high time we extended our basic moral concerns to the other billions of inhabitants on this Earth...