Word: humanize
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...Heritage Dictionary defines murder as "the unlawful killing of one human being by another." In recent rallies around the country, the animal rights movement promoted a different definition for murder: manufacturing, selling and wearing fur coats...
There was more proof last week of a new era of cooperation and trust in U.S.-Soviet relations. The State Department disclosed that President Reagan has approved U.S. participation in a controversial human-rights conference to be held in Moscow in 1991. The White House had long resisted taking part in the 35-nation forum because of suspicions that the Soviets would turn it into a high-profile propaganda show designed to embarrass the U.S. on a number of issues, including its policies in Central America. Secretary of State George Shultz urged both Reagan and President-elect Bush to accept...
...James Whyte, head of the Church of Scotland, spoke for a horrified world. At a memorial service in Lockerbie last week, he condemned last month's bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 as an act of "human wickedness" and "cold and calculated evil." With Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and some 100 relatives of U.S. victims among the mourners, Whyte said those responsible must be brought to justice, but cautioned, "The uncovering of the truth will not be easy, and evidence that would stand up in a court of law may be hard to obtain...
...other end. Anything moving from the faster-aging end of the wormhole to the slower would essentially go backward in time. The mode of travel, however, could be nothing like the mechanical time machine, complete with saddle, envisioned by H.G. Wells. It is hard to conceive how a human being could move through a wormhole, since it would theoretically be narrower than an atom, and it would tend to vanish the instant it formed...
Seems only yesterday that he was a pariah in his homeland, condemned to internal exile. But since the fateful phone call came from Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev two years ago informing Andrei Sakharov that he could return to Moscow, the Nobel laureate and human-rights activist has assumed an increasingly public role in Soviet life. Two weeks ago, Sakharov, 67, led a fact-finding mission to the strife-torn republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan -- reportedly with Gorbachev's personal blessing...