Word: humanity
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...protagonists of these films kept getting younger; Hughes was writing his emotional autobiography backward, like a sitcom Benjamin Button. "Oh, why can't we start old and get younger?" 30-something Annie Potts cries in Pretty in Pink. That was Hughes' writing plan. And when he had exhausted the human family, from dad to teen to little kid, he moved down to canines: a bunch of slapdash farces about Beethoven the slobbering St. Bernard - climaxing, naturally, with Beethoven's Fifth...
...Just a few weeks after the Modin quarantine, senior officials from across the government gathered in the basement of the West Wing to begin planning for the siege to come. On the flat-screen televisions embedded in the soundproof walls, a PowerPoint slide flashed the human toll of previous epidemic flus: more than 600,000 Americans died in the 1918 pandemic, 70,000 "excess" deaths resulted from the Asian flu in 1957, and there were 34,000 deaths after the Hong Kong flu hit in 1968. Next to the 2009-10 H1N1 pandemic, the screens showed nothing but a series...
...Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) predicts that 40% of the nation could be struck - roughly 140 million people - with perhaps a six-figure death toll if a vaccination campaign is not successfully implemented. "To a lot of people, the flu went away," worries Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, who received her first Situation Room flu briefing minutes after taking her oath in April. "Nothing could be further from the truth...
...opposition lawmakers say this abrupt use of "brute force" against peaceful dissenters marks the end of Najib's brief honeymoon. "Saturday's message is clear...toe the line, or face brute force," says opposition MP Tian Chua. Jayasooria says the Prime Minister has not shown a respect for human rights, a commitment to tolerate dissent and see political opponents as partners in a democratic system. "The use of overwhelming force against peaceful dissenters is a serious indictment of his administration," says Jayasooria. August 5's raw display of force is also a far cry from the tolerant and liberal atmosphere...
Pakistan's blasphemy laws date back to the colonial era. The late military dictator General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq introduced a further, harsher clause as part of his sweeping "Islamization" program. Human-rights groups have long appealed to successive governments to repeal or amend the laws. The current ruling party, the Pakistan People's Party, vowed to do so in its election manifesto. As yet, nothing has been done. But presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar says the Gojra tragedy "has increased the urgency of revisiting these laws...