Word: humanize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most cost-effective method of advancing scientific research is to send spacecraft without astronauts off into different parts of the solar system, in a manner similar to the Voyager spacecraft. Because these spacecraft are inherently much less expensive, less complex and less risky than human-occupied craft, they provide more scientific returns per dollar investment...
...have seen so many people in trouble who have lost near and dear ones, whole families," Gorbachev told Soviet television. "I have simply been shaken by everything I have seen in these two days. It is simply difficult to bear this in human terms. It is unbearable...
...distant country. Eager to please its queen, a group sets out in search of edible treasure. When the sugar is found, each takes one grain and heads back -- except for Two Bad Ants (Houghton Mifflin; $15.95). Their mishaps with a spoon, a toaster, a cup of coffee and a human mouth are the subjects of Chris Van Allsburg's tale, brilliantly illuminated with renderings of a world seen from the underside, as two tiny protagonists scamper through its wonders and terrors on all sixes...
...future may prove both sides wrong; whether or not war is an eternal part of the human condition, the struggle for dominance will always continue. But the focus has shifted. In a world growing ever more complex and interdependent, it has become the control of information, expertise, and technology, rather than military power, that is the index of true power. As the Industrial Revolution ended the ancient, "eternal," institution of slavery, so too the information age may be the start of a world beyond war. Yet as industry found new ways to control labor, nations and individuals will continue...
Spector allegedly tried to sell a human head, ears. and arms which he had purchased from morgue workers, according to the Daily Pennsylvanian. Spector had been in business for 15 years before he was discovered by investigators. A suit was filed against Sepctor after a man discovered that his mother's body parts had been sold...