Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...uncommon. Even though the government has been unreceptive of Zhang's work, he maintains that "the government shouldn't fear me. Directors are like little children: simple, honest." Whether or not they should fear Zhang, it is clear that the State still resists honest treatments of the human experience...
...would like to think that the excursions will help her to oil her analytical tools and help her when she has to deal with the next crisis," said Samantha Power, executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, as she introduced Ogata...
...cards in military intervention--and why must we wait until human suffering becomes so intolerable that we must risk disturbing the fragile web of international relations?" Ogata asked during her speech, titled "On the Humanitarian Frontline: New Challenges in Refugee Assistance...
Fertility clinics have always occupied a peculiar place in the American medical system. From the birth of the field in the 1980s, political pressure from conservative religious groups prevented federal money from being used for any work on human embryos. As a result, top clinics operated quietly in the private sector, beyond the reach of most governmental regulations...
...private sector, competition and the desire to expand into new markets fueled an intense research effort into new reproductive technologies. The most impressive technology of all was germ-line genetic engineering, which could be accomplished only by experts in human embryology, who were employed exclusively by private fertility clinics. The potential for profit was enormous, and financial support was easily obtained from biotech venture capitalists. Indeed, the unique American political-scientific-business environment boded well for global domination of the new field...