Word: humanity
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...does most of the protecting. He's obviously never heard of Miranda rights. Not that he is a one-note character: he introduces Turner to romance with the local veterinarian (Mare Winningham), and in moments of repose he has a watchful sobriety that becomes a comment on the human propensity to rush around needlessly. If food, sex or loyalty is not at issue, what's all the excitement about...
...bursting into flame as perspiring Icelanders combat the creep of lava that threatens their fishing village, are fundamentally more dramatic than the mysterious workings of southern Louisiana hydrology. Yet all three elemental battles recounted by the masterly McPhee are unified by the most uncontrolled and stubborn of all forces: human nature...
Scientists have long believed that at the genetic level, men and women are pretty much the same. According to textbooks, only two of the 46 gene-carrying chromosomes in a human cell -- a pair known as the sex chromosomes -- are noticeably different in males and females. But at a genetics seminar last week at Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Me., this conventional wisdom took a beating. Participants cited evidence that there may be many more differences in male and female genes than previously thought. That revelation challenges assumptions about heredity held for more than a century...
...dear wife and people and all...human society and especially the Red Cross, don't leave me," he said. "So to help me move I demand from the American people to oblige Israel to release Sheik Abdul Karim Obeid immediately because his kidnapping is not human...
...were bound for the Delaware River. Our options: an eight-mile trip through "leisure water"--what the canoe people called "easy, easy canoeing for 65-year-olds with heart problems." Or, we could go for the more expensive 10-mile trek through white water rapids, designed for those human beings who want to "grab life by the antlers and suck out its marrow...