Word: humanize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dowling, who is Leverett House master and the author of a recent book on human sight, said advances in neuroscience could lead to new treatments for previously incurable disorders. He said blind people might someday "see" through a system of electrodes connected to the brain's visual cortex...
What does it mean? Some people, it appears, are programmed by their genes to store fat instead of burn it. Scientists speculate that this ability may be a vestige of early human history, when those who could live off their fat reserves were more likely to survive droughts and famines. The bodies of such individuals actively resist every effort to slim down. Below a certain weight, their metabolism slows in order to allow fat to accumulate, but their appetites remain undiminished. Once body weight rises to a certain point, the metabolism seems to speed up, so that they maintain that...
Further afield, many Swaggart fans appeared eager to forgive, if not to forget. Said Mavis Peterson, a retiree in Springfield who has watched the evangelist's shows for a decade: "Brother Swaggart is an imperfect human being, but the Bible says those who love the Lord and seek the truth shall have their sins forgiven if they repent." Still, there is doubt whether Swaggart will ever again have the same level of revival stardom or draw such big TV and in-person audiences in the U.S. and overseas...
...outside a popular gay bar, killing a 33-year-old man. Randy Schell, a client advocate at Community United Against Violence, a San Francisco social-service agency, reports cases of men being beaten with logging chains and sliced with razors. "Anything you could imagine being used to desecrate another human being has been used," he says...
...price is too high for a small beleaguered democracy, Grossman became the new focus of an ongoing wrangle. To hard-liners he was just another yefei-nefesh, or beautiful soul, the Hebrew equivalent of "bleeding heart." For better and for worse, this is true. The Yellow Wind puts a human face on the enemy whom many Israelis would rather not look at. Grossman talks to a member of the outlaw militant Jewish underground in the West Bank town of Ofra, and concludes, "He does not want to think even for a minute about the situation of the Arabs around...