Word: human
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alpine valley of unparalleled beauty, a spruce-and-birch wilderness without roads or ski lifts or other signs of human intrusion. Only the howl of the wind-or of an occasional wolf-now disturbs the silence. But man is on the way. Last week the Alaska capital site planning commission chose the design of a new state capital to rise in the valley. Unless opponents of the plan develop unexpected new strength, this idyllic subarctic landscape will become a kind of Brasilia of the North-though hardly as monumental as its Latin counterpart and far more in harmony with...
...head. In Mmabatho, the new capital carved out of the bush, the crowd roared its approval as President Lucas Mangope, head of the new government, declared that "at last we are no longer helplessly at the mercy of the arbitrary arrogance of those who until this hour trampled our human dignity into the dust...
Developed in the 1950s as an anesthetic, PCP was banned for human use after tests showed erratic side effects, and it is now legal only as a tranquilizer for monkeys and apes. It can be snorted as a powder, injected as a fluid or swallowed as a pill. But usually the drug is dusted or sprayed over parsley, mint leaves or marijuana and smoked. Some dealers doctor low-quality marijuana with it. Others simply sell it to naive youngsters as LSD, THC (the active ingredient in marijuana), mescaline or even cocaine...
...Simon is the kind of learning experience that has occupied his professional life: "If your first recipe fails, you say, 'Dammit, I have to try it again.' It's like medical skills: Why did you miss that diagnosis? In the kitchen, as in the hospital, you learn something about human imperfection...
...million Citicorp Center in midtown Manhattan was an event in itself. More important to New Yorkers and tourists is that the skyscraper gives a stunningly imaginative new accent to the skyline -and, at ground level, is one of the world's few megabuildings that actually appear hospitable to human beings...