Word: humanize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...before the satellite re-entered the atmosphere, an automated safety system kicked in. The reactor was separated from the satellite and shot into a higher orbit. If, however, the reactor should collide with a defunct satellite or some other piece of debris left from more than 30 years of human activity in space, it could be knocked out of orbit anyway. Says Daniel Hirsch, director of the Stevenson Program on Nuclear Policy at the University of California at Santa Cruz: "The probability of a collision with space debris is unacceptably high...
...Woods' angry energy is clarifying as well as terrifying, and when he unleashes it (usually without warning), the effect is to focus our attention where it belongs, not on a suspense story but on the mysteries of human behavior. Not that there are any comfortable conclusions. Woods' idealistic young associate (Robert Downey Jr.) keeps hoping that Eddie will rediscover his '60s idealism. A private eye (Margaret Colin) is standing by to offer redemptive love. These easy, familiar motivations are avoided. Eddie Dodd is not going to be anybody's exemplary case. He is a marginal one, a hard...
Reading excerpts of the document shows the value the modern Church places on the equal treatment of all peoples. By definition, the document says, governments should protect human rights; countries that practice "institutionaized racism" are therefore illegitimate...
...week, I heard a racial slur in high school, with other students invariably joking about the appearance or the alleged "stupidity" of Blacks. When and if the headmaster found out about such incidents, he would give us a lecture about how this sort of slur was a denial of human dignity. But few of my classmates paid any attention...
...case of racial equality at least, the Church has provided the world with a statement which all concerned with human rights should heed. It's a pity that many Americans, Catholics in particular, aren't listening...