Word: life
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...before he travelled to the Sudan, before he saw real deprivation on a societal scale, embodied in one emaciated young girl. Later on, he recalled she was "a skeleton of a person with a thin layer of brown skin on her, who had just a faint breath of life...
...preamble to the Missouri abortion law upheld by the Court declares explicitly that life begins at the moment of conception. The state institutionalized "fetus rights" into its law code, and the Supreme Court chose not to strike it down...
...some, abstract discussions of when life begins might have seemed academic. But Farrar's suit is the first sign that it could have material effects on people's lives...
...finally takes precedence over broad- ranging commentary, is among the most forceful in the history of the American theater. Nothing else he has written comes close to it. If Hwang can again fuse politics and humanity, he has the potential to become the first important dramatist of American public life since Arthur Miller, and maybe the best of them...
...safety. Now, three years later, the supreme soviet of the Byelorussian Republic has suggested that an additional 106,000 people be relocated. If approved by Moscow, this evacuation would confirm suspicions that Soviet officials downplayed the severity of the mishap and grossly underestimated the risk it posed to human life...