Word: humanation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hindu pantheon, is black and terrible. Death and destruction are her province; her eyes and the palms of her four hands are red, her tongue protrudes, corpses are her earrings and around her neck is a string of skulls. In times gone by, Kali was occasionally offered human sacrifices; in modern India she must make do with the blood of goats. But not always...
...Supreme Symbol. The pervasive odor of human manure, the characteristic fragrance of Japan a decade ago, has all but disappeared. Today's farmers buy chemical fertilizers instead. In rice-rich Ichijo. almost all farmhouses now have tiled kitchens, running water and-as a supreme mark of gentility-neat, outdoor privies with trim red pillars...
...report in a Swedish journal that TEA would remove magnesium-caused neuromuscular blocks in other parts of the body. Coupled with an electric shock, TEA promptly defibrillated 44 isolated dog hearts up to eight times each. The technique then saved the baby boy. In four other fibrillating human patients since treated in the same way, it has worked equally well. TEA may be the trick that wall allow considerably longer, cooler, safer heart operations than have been possible...
...America-bankers and industrialists, politicians and diplomats. Their mecca was the consulting room of Dr. Sara Murray Jordan, chief of the clinic's department of gastroenterology, one of the world's most eminent woman physicians and a top authority on everything that can go wrong with the human digestive tract...
This summer, guided by pottery fragments that seemed to have washed from higher ground, he and his men dug a trench up the hill behind the villa. It led them into a temple that had passed out of human memory more than 1,000 years ago. He realized that he had found something unique in Roman Britain: a temple built especially to serve the memory of a wealthy Roman-British couple...