Word: life
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flag-burning legislation as part of a plan for derailing any change in the Constitution, the White House reiterated its preference for an amendment but stopped short of threatening a veto. In late September Bush broke weeks of silence on the abortion issue by praising the "protection of human life" to a group of Catholic lawyers in Boston. But his Justice Department will not make oral arguments in any of the three abortion cases that will come before the Supreme Court this term...
...formula and suckles at the fingers of its human keeper. Unless led away, an orphan will linger by its fallen mother until it collapses from starvation or thirst. And a mature elephant coming across a carcass, even one streaked with vulture droppings, will try to rouse it to life with a gentle prod of its hind...
Tanzania is now getting tough. Since June 1, units of the police, army and wildlife department under Operation Uhai -- Swahili for life -- have arrested 1,840 people and seized more than 1,000 illicit tusks. Some frightened poachers dump their tusks into the Ruaha River rather than risk getting caught. But it is late for Tanzania's elephants. Between 1979 and 1987 their & population plummeted from about...
...until that country declared a ban in August. "There is nothing to give them to do," says Eddie Huen, one of five brothers who run the business started by their father. "They are just sitting, waiting for the future." The carvers are family to each other and have little life outside the factory. They live in the showroom, sleeping there on boards...
...ivory figurine of the Merciful Mother Kannon, which he has been carving for a month. Beside him sits his son Ryusei, 37, a fourth-generation ivory carver. The elder Kawaguchi is a gentle man with a reverence for the gleaming white medium he has spent his lifetime bringing to life. His eyes are weak from the strain of the work. Only in the stillness of night does he carve the delicate faces. When he fashions the eyes, the nose, the mouth, he holds his breath to steady his hands...