Word: humanize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...People wander among the debris of what used to be their homes, straining their ears in the hope of hearing the voice of a missing sister, father, brother or simply any human voice," the official news agency Tass reported yesterday from leninakan near the quake's epicenter...
What do these lucky people have in common? They are united in a pact of longevity by the way their bodies process a waxy, odorless substance present in every human being: cholesterol. Cholesterol? The nemesis of every health- conscious person? The object of a swelling tide of medical diatribes against overeating and underexercising? The primary cause of coronary heart disease, which last year caused 1.5 million heart attacks and 550,000 deaths in the U.S.? How can this be? Isn't cholesterol the enemy...
...that can possibly be gleaned from books. Vincent is placed in an orphanage, from which he escapes to become a petty and entirely unsuccessful con man on L.A.'s meaner streets. In short, neither is equipped for ordinary life, and each needs the other to become a fully functioning human being...
Rana dislikes politics; she wants to be a writer "to convey the pains and hopes of human beings." Her poems, however, catch the pervasiveness of the intifadeh: "In its cage the bird is sad/ Does it cry because it is in exile?/ . . . Or is it the grievance against the rancorous enemy?" Though the death of her brother came as a terrible shock, Rana insists that it has not made her hate Jews. "But I do hate the occupation. If the Israelis are really bothered by the Palestinians hating them, then they should leave the West Bank and Gaza...
Gorbachev's success in recasting the U.S.S.R. as an international good guy is frustrating to many Americans. "It is ironic," says Robert Legvold, a Soviet-affairs expert at Columbia University, "considering that much of what Gorbachev has done the West has advocated, proposed, insisted on for decades -- from human rights to arms control...