Word: mankind
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...each individual consciously experiences and since different individuals' experiences inevitably vary, ideas also vary. Adler finds such notions "repugnant to reason." He calls up the Thomistic view, derived from Aristotle, that ideas are the basic concepts, the universal truths by which we understand experiences. Those truths are immutable. Otherwise, mankind would have no common base of understanding nor any common denominators such as good and justice, or, indeed, truth. Adler believes uncompromisingly in those denominators...
...Bhopal litigation is expected to dwarf those disputes. Approximately 2,000 people were killed and 200,000 injured by the lethal cloud of methyl- isocyanate gas from a Union Carbide pesticide plant (which the company last week announced will never reopen). "The worst industrial disaster mankind has ever known," charged Robins Zelle's formal complaint. India is seeking unspecified compensatory and punitive damages on behalf of itself, the victims and "future generations of victims...
...have often compared South Africa, with its system of apartheid, to apattheid Germany, which was responsible for one of the most devasting in the history of mankind and for the extermination of millions of innocent people. We have no way of knowing how many lives could have been spared had not ITT produced and perfected the communications systems used in Germany bombers and submarines, or bad not RCA, General Motors, DuPont, Chemical or Chuse Manhattan been similarly tied to the Third Reich. We must learn lessons from history...
...union of Leda and the swan (a.k.a. Zeus) once caused mankind some problems, including the Trojan War. If Fevvers is truly a second coming, what upheavals lie in wait for the imminent 20th century? Author Angela Carter, 44, keeps this question twirling throughout Nights at the Circus, her eighth novel. Answers dangle out of reach. But Carter's brand of fanciful and * sometimes kinky feminism, already heralded in her native England and gaining admirers in the U.S., has never been more thoroughly or entertainingly on display...
...gave $5 million to help set up a society of international fellows for scholars in international relations: "First, I owed it to Harvard. I got my education there, and it made a big difference to me. Second, I felt I was being given the opportunity to do something for mankind [through establishing the society of fellows] . . . . And finally, when all is said and done, there's a very simple reason for my gift. I feel very proud of Harvard, and I can assure you I'm giving back to it far less than I took...