Word: human
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...What may have been entertaining idiosyncrasies, like Truman's salty language, Eisenhower's chronic golfing and Carter's reflexive grin, can become slightly irritating. No longer larger than life, as on the triumphant eve of Inauguration, the mid-term President starts looking all too vulnerably human...
Fulfilling his worthy campaign pledge to conduct a "moral" foreign policy, Carter has strongly championed human rights, including those of Soviet dissidents. This has enhanced the nation's moral stature in many parts of the globe but has also enraged the Kremlin and contributed little toward easing the plight of those suffering from Soviet repression. Despite U.S. protests, the Kremlin ruthlessly tried and sentenced Dissidents Anatoli Shcharansky and Alexander Ginzburg. To back up his rhetoric, Carter presumably felt that he had to retaliate, and last week he canceled the sale of a computer to the U.S.S.R. and threatened...
Undaunted by the world outcry against the trials and convictions of Anatoli Shcharansky and two other Soviet dissidents, Moscow last week moved to silence another human rights activist. Attorney Lev Lukyanenko, 50, went on trial in the small Ukrainian town of Gorodnya near Kiev on charges of "anti-Soviet agitation." The pattern of the proceedings was much the same as in the previous trials. Like Shcharansky, Alexander Ginzburg and Viktoras Petkus, Lukyanenko refused to make a public confession, despite seven months of pretrial interrogation. Instead, he went on a hunger strike when the summary four-day trial began, refused...
...Harvard scientists reported in today's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine that they successfully identified a single gene in a human fetus cell...
...stuff of George Carlin's comedy is words. He makes them sound nice as he says them, but more importantly, his comedy reveals words for what they are--artificial symbols for items and concepts that exist in reality. Like fantasies, words are creations of the human mind; if there were no human minds, there would be no words...