Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Images of human heads carved in the stone matched those on the rest of the statue...
...Father Hehir is a man of exceptional intellect and incisiveness, and he possesses rare human and spiritual qualities that make him ideally suited for this important position," he said. "His combination of qualities--humanity, leadership, intelligence, judgement, commitment and administrative ability--is quite simply superb...
...dramatic new result traces back to a breakthrough in 1983, when the Whitehead's Robert Weinberg and colleagues showed that mouse cells would become cancerous when spiked with two altered genes. But when they tried such alterations on human cells, they didn't work. Since then, scientists have learned that mouse cells differ from human cells in an important respect: they have higher levels of an enzyme called telomerase. That enzyme keeps caplike structures called telomeres on the ends of chromosomes from getting shorter with each round of cell division. Such shortening is part of a cell's aging process...
Clockwise from top: the Clintons will visit Skaneateles, N.Y.; Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala will hike unspecified mountains out West with former Federal Reserve vice chairman Alice Rivlin; Secretary of Commerce William Daley will go salmon fishing in Alaska with Senate Appropriations chairman Ted Stevens; Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg taught a law class held at Crete's Sirens Beach Resort Hotel; Senator John McCain will settle in on a houseboat in Lake Powell, Ariz.; Speaker Dennis Hastert will attend the reopening of the Reichstag; Al Gore went canoeing on the Connecticut River...
...have an expert partner who would save me if I were in any real danger. I'm trapped inside a boat in strong currents, far from home--a reckless fool. Then I give another mighty yank, and the skirt pops off. I shoot to the surface, a flustered human cannonball...