Word: humanize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flight of Apollo 8 accomplished ten revolutions around the moon, and ended with an uneventful splashdown in the Pacific. It was a marvelous Christmas gift to the human race -- and especially to the U.S., battered by war, assassination and domestic strife. For the first time, men saw the entire globe floating in the void. It was the centerpiece of a new era, a new consciousness: the Space Age. In the cramped confines of an 11-ft.-long module, blasted aloft by a 363-ft. Saturn 5 rocket, the three astronauts embodied an American urge for restless exploration, wedded...
...Science B-38. "Plants and Biological Principles in Human Affairs" Otto T. Solbrig...
...Both sides hope not to have a really protracted negotiation," said Anne H. Taylor, director of the University's Human Resources office. "Whether we could achieve that or not, we shall...
GENITAL WARTS. Possibly more common than herpes are the tiny warts caused by the human papilloma virus. Like herpes, the disease cannot be flushed out of the body. The major complication appears to be a higher risk of cervical cancer in women...
...than 1 in 1.5 million (compared with, for example, 1 chance in 68,000 of choking to death or 1 in only 5,300 of dying in a car crash), that the number of possible five-card poker hands is 2,598,960 and that the size of a human cell is to that of a person as that of a person is to the size of Rhode Island. Paulos also notes that 367 people have to be gathered to ensure that two of them share the same birthday. How many must be in a group to guarantee a fifty...