Word: humanizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This discovery comes less than two years after Folkman published his lab's detection of the second of two protein fragments thought to suppress tumor growth. The three fragments have only been tested in animals, and it will be impossible to judge the potential of these substances in fighting human cancers until extensive clinical trials are held, at least...
...left Harvard to serve as master of Trinity College at Cambridge University, presented his listeners with an analysis of utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham's accusation that human rights were nothing more than "nonsense on stilts...
Bentham took issue with the open-endedness of human rights--rights that exist prior to the state or any other agent that can secure them, Sen said...
...Bentham's argument was that humans in nature are no more born with human rights than they are with clothes--rights require legislation just as clothes require tailoring," Sen said...
...according to Sen, there are ethical imperatives that exist prior to any state, and it is from these imperatives that the concept of human rights draws its strength...