Word: mankind
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...With headquarters in Boston and a branch in London, it now claims the support of 135,000 physicians and health-care professionals in 41 nations (60,000 doctors in the Soviet Union alone, according to Chazov). The Nobel judges lauded the group for having "performed a considerable service to mankind by spreading authoritative information and by creating an awareness of the catastrophic consequences of atomic warfare...
...incredible idealist," said Lowell House resident Sheila J. Hogan '87 of Elek. "In talking to him you get this energy--you get this feeling he has this real calling to help mankind...
...vast effort by the industries that profit from the chemicals can get the waste mess under control. That would undoubtedly mean added costs passed on to the consumer, but the basic fact is that the effort must be made. Wondrous chemical potions have been a great aid to mankind, easing pain, alleviating disease, prolonging life, spurring food production and serving as the catalyst for countless useful products. But once discarded, many of these concoctions, or their by-products, turn killer, and the U.S. has no choice but to curb their lethal ways...
Almost all of the people intersect in some way. But these conjunctions, meant to be an inspirational example of how all mankind is bound together, can sometimes seem forced and almost irrelevant...
...their devotion to great virtue, and some achieve majesty by all the while seeming to seek after something smaller. Athol Fugard uses deceptively simple language and stories to explore vividly specific individuals, yet he makes every wrong step between them seem a natural metaphor for some larger collision of mankind. He knows that the domestic quarrel is the central tragedy of any age. It is this pained acuity about the buffeting nature of daily life, even more than his passionate denunciation of the social system in his native South Africa, that makes Fugard the greatest active playwright in the English...