Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...common room plays are not professional productions, and no acting or directing experience is required of the performers. Several of the participants in Jet of Blood had never acted before, and Weiner says all that is needed is "just a human quality, the desire to perform." He says several people have already asked to take part in future plays after seeing the group's work...
...next time you wake up after a good night's sleep. you might want to give your brain a rest. Researchers at Harvard Medical School have found that during certain phases of the human sleep cycle, the mind is more active than it is during waking hours...
...laboratory at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Hobson uses electroencephalograms (EEG). He says measurements of the brain's electrical output, made by attaching electrodes to the head, show that the brain is almost 90 percent more active during REM sleep than at any other slumber time. The normal human passes through five distinct stages of sleep, with the REM stage following the lighter, first two stages. Sleep stages three and four--following REM chronologically--are deep sleep periods...
Ronald Petti, the University's director of Human Resources, says that support staff at Harvard are not subject to pay inequities. The average male support staff at Harvard earns a slightly higher salary than a woman staff member, Petti admits. But that does not prove discrimination, he says, since the average male worker has been on the job longer than the average woman...
From the extremes of blacker-than-thou to whiter-than-thou. Blacks have squandered unimaginable energy on intragroup color consciousness Isn't it time to appreciate the possibility that to be Black means, in part to reflect on the whole human family? If Blacks have to put any energy at all into intragroup color, let's celebrate it. We've denigrated it too much for much too long. Marvin Hightower...