Word: neighborism
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...time of heightened interest in space - and heightened controversy about space exploration. The success of ESA's Mars Express orbiter mission and NASA's Spirit and Opportunity landers - all of which sent back stunning photos of the Red Planet - promises fascinating advances in our knowledge of our planetary neighbor. But the explosion of the Columbia space shuttle last year, killing all seven astronauts on board, has raised doubts about the cost of space travel - both in terms of dollars and in human life. Unmanned missions like Rosetta - and Britain's plucky little Beagle-2, which vanished without a trace while...
...misuses of “love” don’t end there. “Love thy neighbor as thyself” (Leviticus 19:18) has emerged as a cliché of biblical proportions in modern society—with good reason. One could hardly imagine a more humanitarian aphorism; it manages to encapsulate our most basic conceptions of morality, justice and equality. Religious people of many faiths are correct in saying that God commands them to love in this sense, and the more agnostic among us can be motivated by basic human decency. But what should this...
...most explosive action in the film--its equivalent of a car chase--comes when Folke moves a salt cellar and Isak has trouble finding it. Yet Hamer reveals a surprising richness in these lives. Isak's beloved workhorse is dying, and his neighbor, his only friend, grows increasingly jealous of Folke's presence. As for Folke, living in a cramped trailer parked outside, wearing a suit and tie in his observer's chair, his life is constrained. As far as we know, his only human contact is an aunt who sends him food parcels...
...claim that I did not think that Pakistan's nuclear weapons are vital to our national security. I grew up in Lahore, a howitzer-shell's flight from the Indian border, and I have witnessed firsthand the tension that comes when a country masses its army against its smaller neighbor. I have seen our troops digging in and our choppers flying low overhead as I have dropped off my younger cousins at school. And I know that in those moments I have been grateful for our nuclear weapons, for the deterrent that has kept the unthinkable consequences of war unthinkable...
...pages), by Jean Fagan Yellin, is the first biography of Jacobs, and it's a harrowing case study of the cruel conundrums women faced under slavery. When Jacobs was an adolescent, her master made sexual advances toward her. She tried to discourage him by initiating an affair with a neighbor. "At fifteen," Yellin writes, "she did not have the option of choosing virginity." But the harassment persisted, and in 1835 Jacobs took more drastic action: she ran to her grandmother's house and hid in a cubbyhole. Her sanctuary was 9 ft. long by 3 ft. high. She stayed there...