Word: humanism
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...defines them: the soaring health-care costs that disadvantage American companies abroad, the difficulty young people—the lifeblood of any economy—have affording higher education, and, most drastically, the threat that a failure to meaningfully combat global warming will pose to both the planet and human lives. As Rosabeth Moss Kanter, a Harvard Business School professor, wrote for Politico in response to Krauthammer’s piece, Obama is “not only a brilliant strategist, he is a brilliant analyst of America, understanding all the factors that contribute to economic decline and recovery...
...Furthermore, the pro-research camp often goes too far in disregarding the significance of embryos as the origins of human life. A recent Crimson editorial (“Cell-ebration,” March 10) used highly misleading language in calling embryos “merely a collection of cells.” Embryos are a far cry from a toddler, but we should exercise caution about starting down the path toward sacrificing human life simply to harvest components for experiments...
...Peter, there's always the shuttle, but be warned that nobody will want to visit you because Dunster might as well be part of some imaginary netherland tucked far, far away from human civilization. The reality is that it'll take you about 7 minutes to get to the Yard by foot...
...approaching when the U.S. military can deploy a robot that can drive itself around a corner, use senors to detect an enemy fighter on the move and destroy targets instantly with missiles and machine guns - all without human intervention? The Pentagon thinks the day may be imminent, and it wants to ensure that its technology doesn't get ahead of military doctrine. It wants to be certain that there is always a human making decisions regarding the use of lethal force...
...what to a dog is considered a treasure: a bone jutting from the sandy soil. Ross had an uneasy feeling about the find, however. She snapped a photograph and sent it to her sister, a nurse, who validated her suspicion. Ross called police, who confirmed that it was a human...