Word: human
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...another case decided last week, a New York State judge raised some doubts about the courtroom use of DNA technology. Forensic DNA tests seek to compare the genetic patterns of a suspect or victim with those of the human remains, such as blood or semen, left at the scene of a crime. Proponents of DNA identification have long insisted that the tests are so precise that they can establish matches or exclusions to a near certainty...
Shoe designers finely tune each category of shoe to its particular activity by studying human motion and physiology. Reebok's baseball shoes, for example, have a specially designed cleat pattern called SpeedSlot for fast starts and stops. Crafty Nike marketeers have also invented in-between products, most notably the cross-trainer shoe, designed for an all-around athlete. Cross- trainers offer enough lateral support for the sideways motions of aerobics and basketball but are light and flexible enough for jogging...
...think I was pretty human before I was divorced. Mine was not a terribly painful, miserable, rotten divorce with animosity and anxiety. I just knew that my life was going to have to change, and I was determined that I was going to make it better. The divorce was going to improve my life...
...placards calling for liquidation of the Nazi-Soviet pact. HOW LONG WILL THE RED ARMY BE MASTER OF OUR LAND, declares a poster with a blood-red footprint on a map of the republic. On Aug. 23, the date of the agreement, popular-front groups hope to organize a human chain from Estonia to Lithuania, a sort of Hands Across the Baltics...
...diagnostic tests on the national conscience. For the story it tells, based on an incident first reported in The New Yorker by Daniel Lang two decades ago, is too brutally horrific to contemplate unless some moral edification can be derived from it, some guide to the larger enigmas of human conduct...