Word: humanities
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Still, regardless of this perk, something just feels wrong about Jack and Mike. In place of human conversation, a sarcastic male voice now greets 93.1’s Los Angeles listeners with the same schtick every time. Clearly, he’s too cool for school, he’s anti-establishment, he has nothing to do with those saccharin-sweet DJs who clog up the airways—because he’s a recording and doesn’t waste your time with old-fashioned niceties...
...Tibet, according to New York-based Human Rights Watch, authorities have made thousands of arbitrary arrests, and more than 100 trials have gone through the judicial system over the unrest...
...H1N1 declaration sounds more dire than it really is. Obama has neither seized property nor commanded any militia to combat swine flu. So far, he has only given the Secretary of Health and Human Services the ability to do things like allowing hospitals to transfer patients to special satellite facilities - something not usually allowed under federal...
...This kind of behavior doesn't fit into neoclassical economic models, which assume that human beings are rational agents who act in their own best interests. In the real world, human beings are human beings. Sometimes we're too dumb to know our own best interests. Sometimes we're too lazy to slog through the forms to figure out our own best interests. Often we're conformists; we assume the default must be the default because that's what most people do, and we're desperate not to be social deviants...
...relays often attract awestruck crowds of revelers eager for a glimpse of the spectacle. But at times the relay has courted controversy - such as on its way to Beijing in 2008, when demonstrators staged protests against the Chinese government for alleged offenses ranging from domestic human-rights violations to transgressions in Tibet...