Word: human
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...November 15, the Nat Sci 3 staff found a successful alternative chemical, methylene chloride, which was used exclusively in the lab starting Thursday. The staff deserves credit for the quick action taken to find a substitute for EDB. But it was irresponsible to needlessly expose students to this suspected human carcinogen in the Tuesday and Wednesday labs...
American food, like American farming techniques, will never be the hope of the lesser developed countries. Our current large-scale farming practices are built on our ability to squander cheap energy on fertilizers, mechanization and irrigation, not on a desire to increase the efficiency of human toil without replacing it. As energy gets continually more expensive and the overused water tables continue to drop, we shall reap as we have sown...
...through the rainy streets of Charleston, W. Va., to the threadbare hotel room of a defeated Hubert Humphrey remains the most poignant memory in primary politics? For one thing, Theodore White was there and he turned it into literature. For another, the emotion of that evening covered the full human scale. Then, too, excellent men won -and lost...
...Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History noted that the speaker somehow managed to discuss museums, stones, stuffed birds, cave paintings, Cro-Magnon man, children, parents, grandparents, dinosaurs, whales, the possibility of life in outer space, education, the youth revolution of the 1960s, the oneness of the human species, pollution, evolution, growing up in New Guinea, relations between the sexes, communes and the fragmentation of communities...
...moreover, one very special special effect: human flying. In Star Wars, audiences wanted to see space flights and talking robots. In Close Encounters of the Third Kind, they wanted to find out what flying saucers and extraterrestrial beings might look like. In Superman, they will want to see if modern movie technology can make a man fly convincingly. "The film stands or falls on whether the characters appear to fly," says Terence Stamp, who plays the villainous General Zod. "If they do, the picture is a success." By Stamp's definition, at any rate, the movie will...