Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also said such a survey would provide a good basis for future research. "It is more important to find all the species than to map the human genome," said Wilson...
Perhaps the worst violence occurred in Guarenas, a shantytown about 12 miles from the capital where the disturbances began. People there formed human chains and threw rocks at National Guard troops in armored cars after the soldiers began firing birdshot and tear gas at looters...
...clear that as long as Khomeini remains the undisputed leader of Iran, "moderates" will wield little influence. The fact that the leader of an entire nation would repeatedly issue a threat against a single individual proves the instability of Khomeini and his lack of understanding of the sanctity of human life. In the present poisoned climate, normality seems impossible...
...Rushdie affair also reminds us that the hard-won emancipation of the human mind from those who would enslave it, now often taken for granted in the West, is more precious and more fragile than we would like to believe. The decision last week by some U.S. booksellers, including B. Dalton, Waldenbooks, and Barnes & Noble, to remove The Satanic Verses from store displays and shelves can only encourage future acts of intellectual terrorism. They have agreed to put the book back on the shelves, but their initial response is still disturbing...
...Penguin has said that it would arrange not to publish a paperback version of the book if such a move would end the controversy and death threats that have arisen. We would strongly object to this type of agreement, which would jeopardize the future of Rushdie's novel. The human mind must not be held hostage...