Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...account for the U.S. harvest spray with Alar. On Thursday three federal agencies responsible for food safety declared that apples are not dangerous to eat and that Alar is not an "imminent hazard" to children. Nonetheless, that same day Meryl Streep testified before a packed Senate Labor and Human Resources subcommittee hearing on Alar's use, "Even now, we don't know what's on our food . . . I no longer want my children to be part of this experiment." An ad campaign starring Streep began airing on March...
...growing paranoia justified? How safe are the U.S. food and water supplies? The reassuring answer: very safe. In fact, the country's food and water systems are the safest in its history and among the safest in the world today. Despite all the alarms, the dangers to human health appear to be quite small...
...wise course for the West is to overhaul its long-standing policy of "differentiation," which has meant, primarily, dealing with each East European country directly rather than through Moscow, and rewarding human- rights improvement with economic prizes like most-favored-nation trade status. But, says a Western diplomat in Vienna, "quite frankly, differentiation is a reactive policy, a cautious policy. It does not initiate and it is not crafted to take account of the complex issues that are now at stake...
...cultural festival, a film festival and host speakers and workshops to celebrate and educate the Harvard community about the Asian American experience. More than half the positions in our steering committee deal specifically with political and social concerns of Asian Americans, "social" being defined as having to do with human beings existing and interacting together. This year alone, we organized an intercollegiate conference on Asian American social concerns and played large roles in bringing about Actively Working Against Racism and Ethnocentrism week, Cultural Rhythms and Visions '89, an unprecendented event which brought together minority students from all over the East...
...made up of people with shared experiences and interests. Secondly, it sees the one table filled with people of color, but misses the surrounding 20 long tables lined with whites only. Finally, it sees each of the individuals at these tables as a color instead of as a human being...