Word: humanize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scientific exposition and scientific biography, come together as we begin to glimpse the deep rationale behind it. Wright's purpose is not merely to understand the nature of meaningful information; it is to explore the meaning of life and what modern science has to say on the value of human existence. His method shows that abstract theories of information are ultimately still the products of individual thinkers...
...deplorable behavior of parts of the Israeli military and against recent legislation allowing incarceration without charge. Now is the first time I have not heard the "double standard" complaint used in defense of Israel. This can only be because we Jews are beginning to understand that Israel's human rights violations are not merely "as bad" as those of many other countries. They are worse. Analogies to South Africa--though often simplistic and malicious--are becoming increasingly valid...
Glasser implies, mistakenly, that the presence of more international students means that the Kennedy School is shifting its emphasis to diplomacy and international relations. Very few foreign students, however, are training to be diplomats. They have interests in a wide range of areas such as health and human resources, transportation, governing at the state and local level, security issues, energy, the environment, etc. And we have a great deal to learn from them...
...America is facing a pressing problem due to the pervasive use and abuse of drugs. A priority for law enforcement officials should be stopping the drug traffickers. But the protection of civil rights and the abolition of racial prejudice is essential to our own conception of ourselves as just human beings. To pursue one relentlessly at the cost of the other should not be sanctioned, and a balance must be sought, one that does not include stereotypical profiles which have police with excessive power over our daily lives...
...effectively end Washington D.C.'s abortion program for the poor, which is funded by city taxpayers. Congress, in its wisdom, went on to repeal three other laws that had been approved by the city government--the residency requirement for city workers, a section of the city's human rights law, and a ban on insurance company discrimination against AIDS victims...