Word: humanism
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...Haemophilus influenzae bacterium, the first living organism whose genes were decoded. In 1997, cloning made stop-the-presses headlines when embryologist Ian Wilmut announced that he had cloned a sheep. Venter grabbed the spotlight again in 2003 when his team became one of two to sequence the human genome. A living woolly mammoth either will or won't ensue, but if cloning history is any guide, don't bet against will...
Rarely in the course of human events does the election of one individual seem to make everybody around the world stop and take notice. The next-day headlines were evidence that something transformative had happened. Barack Obama resonated with the hopes and aspirations of not just Americans but so many globally who yearn for a better tomorrow...
...prone to human error.' GINGER KERRICK, NASA flight director, after an astronaut lost hold of a tool bag worth nearly $100,000 during a space walk...
...economy grow again and to sustain America's leadership in the world, education must become a major focus. A good education has been the greatest antipoverty program in U.S. history--and Obama himself is a prime example of it. More than factories or financial institutions, our greatest capital is human capital: the American people. It is hard to sustain American greatness when only three-quarters of our children are graduating from high school...
...There is no longer an American Dream, at least for the moment.' VICTOR CLARK, director of a Tijuana-based human-rights organization that works with illegal migrants, on the 42% drop in Mexican emigration over the past two years...