Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, scientists are not expecting miracles, particularly in battling cocaine addiction. Unlike heroin, which acts on the pain-killing endorphin system alone, cocaine engages three separate neurotransmitter systems: those based on dopamine, serotonin and norepinephrine. Taken together, these networks govern the human ability to experience pleasure, from watching a sunrise to having sex. Blocking all these pleasure centers -- as methadone blocks the heroin high -- would literally take the joy out of life, says Yale's Kosten. "We'd turn out automatons." Addicts trying to quit cocaine go through a stage called anhedonia, a sort of spiritless limbo that typically drives...
Already the government is betraying distressingly fascist leanings. Strict, vaguely worded laws curbing dissent were rammed through the legislature last week. Death squads are on the rise; evidence collected by human-rights groups strongly implicates the army in the killing of six Jesuit priests three weeks ago. Predictably, the criminal investigation of the Jesuits' slaying -- in contrast to the official probe of the SA-7s' origin -- has got nowhere...
...starting point is that freedom of movement is a basic human right. Thus there could be no better proof of our sincerity about renewing socialism than by starting with human rights. I considered it a disadvantage that we were signers of the Helsinki Final Act and the Vienna declaration yet we did not abide by certain parts of those agreements. We intend by this action to emphasize the unity between word and deed. Last but not least, let me stress that to open the border does not mean that its existence should be questioned...
...change policies you need a political majority. My political friends will confirm that I felt very much inspired by the ideas of Gorbachev, without thinking that the same changes had to be introduced here. We were and still are different countries. The essential thing is socialism with a human face combined with democracy. I am convinced that if we had opted for this course earlier, we would not have stumbled into the political crisis in which we find ourselves...
...marked a turning point in European history. Now you could reverse the whole thing and say the disappearance of the G.D.R. would also constitute another turning point. At the present time, it would serve neither the interests of peace nor stability, nor would it be in the interest of human beings...