Word: humanize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There used to be a debate in the '70s about appropriate technology. Now the question is: Did God choose an appropriate technology when he gave human beings dominion over the earth? The jury is still out. And the answer has to come in our lifetime from the political system...
There are precedents. We made human sacrifice, once commonplace, obsolete. We made slavery obsolete. These things, just like changes in weather patterns, took a long period of time. But now, just as climate changes are telescoped into a very short period of time, changes in human thinking of a magnitude comparable to the changes that brought about the abolition of slavery must take place in one generation...
...Housing and Urban Development. Kemp has long sought to bring minorities into the G.O.P. by promoting economic opportunity in inner cities. But an unforeseen flap over abortion almost sabotaged Bush's most important gesture to blacks: the appointment of Dr. Louis W. Sullivan to be Secretary of Health and Human Services and the first black member of the new Cabinet...
WINGS OF DESIRE An angel, whose job it is to listen to the cries of human misery, falls to earth and falls in love. This astringent romantic fairy tale, from director Wim Wenders and novelist Peter Handke, imagines a West Berlin languishing in heartache and itching for spiritual redemption. It's funny...
...with Iraq is in a sputtering cease-fire, but violence and death have taken no rest in Iran. In a report released last week, Amnesty International cites "indisputable" evidence that Iran has unleashed a new wave of political executions. The London-based human-rights group says it has verified nearly 400 summary executions. The true total, observers fear, probably runs into the thousands...