Word: humanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...organizing and participating in chess tournaments, visiting the base gymnasium, pitching horseshoes and taking coffee breaks." Levy, who was president of a Maryland computer consulting firm until he was called up, was so angry that he wrote an open letter to the President and Congress. "Never have I seen human resources so tragically misallocated," he declared. "Never have I experienced conditions so calculated to destroy the human spirit...
...become informers." Che watched some of his most loyal followers fall in combat, get separated from others and cut off from supplies by the army's ever-tightening clamp. "This type of struggle gives us the opportunity not only to turn ourselves into revolutionaries, the highest level of the human species, but it also allows us to graduate as men," he wrote on Aug. 8, still confident of victory. Two weeks later, his tone had changed: "The situation is becoming anguished. The rnacheteros [trailblazers] were suffering fainting spells. Miguel and Dario were drinking their own urine and Chino was doing...
...ORIGINAL SIN. The concept that every human inherits Adam's guilt has increasingly been challenged by a counterview: "original sin" is man's inborn weakness, but the only sins for which a man can be held accountable are those committed of his own free will. Not so, said Paul: "We believe that in Adam all have sinned." The Pope specifically reaffirmed a pronouncement by the Council of Trent, which maintained that original sin is transmitted "not by imitation but by propagation...
...limit to its potential. The fierce pure light they were coaxing out of synthetic crystals was so powerful that the military believed its long-sought super-weapon-a death ray-might finally become a reality. Applications in medicine and in industry seemed limited only by the human imagination...
...precision and penetrating power of laser beams have, as predicted, given them entree to the operating room, where they can cut into human and animal tissue as delicately as a finely honed scalpel. Even better, the laser knife does not draw blood. Its searing but highly localized heat cauterizes capillaries and other blood vessels as they are severed. Like ordinary light, laser beams pass through transparent substances but are absorbed by darker, opaque materials. Thus they flash harmlessly through the cornea and lens of the eyeball to weld a detached retina back into place, or puncture small holes...