Word: humanize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...camel or on foot." He wrote his books in the same unhurried fashion, patiently putting one incident after another, savoring the landscape, the history and the lore. As well as any travel writer of the 19th and 20th centuries, Thesiger conveys the explorers' bond of shared solitude. He shows human nature in its crucible, including the elements of savagery and the instinct for hospitality, which flourishes best in the most inhospitable terrain...
...rarefied range. Among Merck's best sellers are Vasotec, a blood pressure-lowering drug; the antibiotics Primaxin and Noroxin; Pepcid, used to treat peptic ulcers; the anti-inflammatories Clinoril and Indocin; an antiglaucoma agent named Timoptic; and the hepatitis fighter Recombivax HB, the first genetically engineered vaccine licensed for human...
...gaining currency mainly because of the rapidly expanding scientific discipline of gerontology. Modern studies of the aging process involve everyone from laboratory researchers examining brain tissue to nutritionists interviewing nonagenarians to physicians specializing | in treating the elderly. The goal of gerontology is not to extend the upper limit of human life -- now about 115 to 120 years of age -- but to make the lives of the elderly less burdensome physically and more rewarding emotionally. "The new focus," says Dr. John Rowe, director of the division on aging at Harvard Medical School, "is not on life-span but on health- span...
...then-Director of the FBI William H. Webster, smack frighteningly of the McCarthy-era Red Scares. Webster is now the director of the CIA. If he continues to exhibit such paranoia as these two instances show, the CIA could well become an even worse violator of civil liberties and human rights than it has been in the past. Webster may even begin to turn the CIA's covert efforts to home territory, continuing the work the FBI started. Clearly he is a man that must be watched, and it is a sign of hope that even President Reagan has realized...
...most effective and realistic roles for the U.N. are those of "facilitator, observer, and whistle-blower," said Maynes, adding that "states don't like to lose face" in the international arena. The foreign policy expert said that since 1945 the U.N. has made substantial contributions in peacekeeping, human rights and economic development...