Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What else should the U.S. be doing? Three years ago, a White House task force on terrorism chaired by then Vice President Bush recommended limited and well-defined military retaliation in a hostage crisis if all other means failed. "((The panel)) would not approve of wanton destruction of human life . . . in order to show some muscle," said Bush in introducing the report. Armed force would be used only "where it can be surgically done...
According to the 1988 survey on drug abuse commissioned by the Department of Health and Human Services, the number of Americans using illicit drugs at least once a month dropped from 23 million in 1985 to 14.5 million last year. Even more striking, the number of cocaine users has dropped an estimated 50%. "Illicit drug use remains much too high," said DHHS Secretary Louis Sullivan. "But the dramatic declines ((show that)) attitudes are changing...
Until we know for sure that DC-10s are just as safe as any other airplane, the FAA should ground the plane. The cost in human terms is too great to do anything else...
International affairs, particularily in regions of the world where religion--and ideology--play a dominant role, simply do not fit into neat American conceptions of political tolerance and respect for human rights. Unlike domestic affairs, where the government is (ideally) a disinterested and fair judge of disputes between its citizens, the world arena has no impartial third party actually capable of settling conflicts...
...Human chromosomes come in 23 pairs. One member of each pair is from a person's mother and the other from the father. Except for the two sex chromosomes, the members of each pair were thought to be interchangeable. It seemed that the way a chromosome functioned in the cell had nothing to do with whether it came from the mother or the father...