Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nation editor Robert T. Zintl never forgot how LIFE magazine in 1969 drove home the human cost of the Viet Nam War by publishing photographs of 217 of the 242 American servicemen killed in a single week. Today far more Americans die each week from gunfire. Zintl proposed that TIME undertake a project to find out who the victims are and how they...
...talk about it, they're freedom fighters." Why is black life less sacred than white life? he asks. Why do blacks need the "stamp of approval" of whites to feel affirmed? Why are his films lumped together as black, when each one examines a distinctly different aspect of the human condition? Looking for racism at every turn, he finds...
...reliability and little expense. So essential has electricity become that more than 2 million miles of power lines, literally huge extension cords, criss-cross the U.S. But nowadays many Americans are increasingly fearful that the electric and magnetic fields generated by such overhead cables pose a serious threat to human health, causing everything from learning disorders to cancer...
Laboratory experiments have shown that electric and magnetic fields can exert an influence on biological processes. Cells naturally maintain an electric charge across their membranes that is essential to the normal functioning of human tissues. In cell cultures, exposure to electromagnetic fields can affect the flow of chemicals across membranes, interfere with synthesis of genetic material, alter the activity of hormones and other chemicals, and change the behavior of cancer cells. Studies with mice show disruptions in eating, breathing and sleeping patterns. An experiment with human volunteers who were exposed to electromagnetic fields found they experienced a reduced heart rate...
...chosen not to operate any public hospitals at all." Another provision, requiring physicians to perform tests to determine whether a 20-week-old fetus could survive outside the womb, was also upheld, in part on the ground that such testing "permissibly furthers the State's interest in protecting potential human life...