Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thomas Murphy's drama of a brutish Irishman and his four sons who move in on a fifth son who has tried to flee their world of tooth and claw by moving to England. The play is full of the rude poetry of the commonplace, stating truths about human nature that one would often rather forget...
Often they are. Thanks to the institute's experiments, hardy new strains of wheat and barley now thrive in the sun-baked Israeli soil. In medicine, its scientists have developed a tiny, magnetic catheter that can travel through human blood vessels to reach the remotest regions of the body. As the world's leading producer of "heavy oxygen," the institute supplies these radioactive isotopes for tracer work to labs around the globe. One of its most ingenious feats was achieved by Biophysicist Aaron Katchalsky, who used synthetic fibers to duplicate the perplexing process by which muscles convert...
...Kentucky Court of Appeals has just upheld that Solomonic decision, but not without severe debate. Speaking for three dissenters, Judge Samuel Steinfeld was troubled by his "indelible" recollection of Nazi Germany's "genocide and experimentation with human bodies." Steinfeld argued that the mother had not demonstrated conclusively that the operation would benefit the retarded brother. "The ability to fully understand and consent," he declared, "is a prerequisite to the donation of a part of the human body...
...play a latter-day Candide-an innocent in the West of all possible worlds. TIME Correspondent Tim Tyler, 28, born in New York City and based in Los Angeles for the past 22 months, played that role recently. In effect, Tyler became a camera, zooming in on the human-natural scene, searching for something like the soul of the state. His report...
...Human Laboratory...