Word: exploitatively
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Before an audience of 2,000 correspondents, cameramen and spectators in Moscow University's ornate assembly hall, Russia's space twins, Major Andrian Nikolayev and Lieut. Colonel Pavel Popovich, last week underwent a four-hour earth post-mortem of their memorable exploit in space...
...laboratories all over the world, other researchers are designing experiments to exploit this new knowledge of photosynthesis. Drs. Arnon and Tagawa have already been able to recognize a striking similarity between photosynthesis in plants and chemical processes that are carried on by certain bacteria that live in the soil, cut off from both sunlight and oxygen. The discovery, says Dr. Arnon, demonstrates "the beautiful biochemical unity of nature...
...poisoned arrows, practice animal sacrifice to the spirits of the sky and water; montagnard women go barebreasted, and men wear only loincloths. Though they inhabit more than half the land of South Viet Nam, the montagnards consider the Vietnamese to be carpetbaggers who came into the hills only to exploit them and steal their land. Taking advantage of this loathing, Communist Viet Cong guerrilla cadres from the north moved into the mountains, adopted tribal customs, even took montagnard wives in an effort to persuade the mountain people to join their ranks...
...President and his family are naturals for publicity, and journalists have not been slow to exploit the color, the drama, the human appeal that emanate from the White House. Galleys of type and yards of picture spreads about the birthdays of the children, the social affairs of the First Lady, the horsemanship of a sister, the recreational habits of the Attorney General's family, feed the public's desire to know all about the White House inhabitants. Everything goes to deepen the cult...
...That the mass media should so exploit the President and his family for circulation purposes is serious enough. But even more dangerous implications arise: the danger of the imbalance of the news. Every inclusion means a corresponding exclusion. And, even when significant news is reported, as prisoners of the cult we may be tempted to overlook it. Readers often prefer to be amused rather than informed. Who doesn't gravitate toward the human-interest story, perhaps to the neglect of the duller but more significant news? . . . The effect is the displacement, or downgrading, of significant events...