Word: nonhuman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wilson's book, though mainly about nonhuman animals, made enough such pronouncements to get him vilified as a "biological determinist" and a menace to society. While he was speaking at a scientific conference, a protester called him "all wet" and dumped water...
Several owners remain philosophically opposed to any nonhuman intrusion on the dignity of the game, which is essentially a blood sport. But a random sampling of teams suggests replay will get a thorough review in the off-season, as will oft debated questions such as whether officials should be full-time professionals rather than weekend warriors with day jobs...
...they certainly became one very shortly thereafter. After halogen lamps were banned in all Yard dormitories in September of 1997 (though still permitted in upperclass Houses), students found themselves faced with a simple choice. They could sit in the dark, eat large quantities of carrots or develop previously nonhuman powers of sonar detection and echolocation to get around their abysmally lit rooms...
...system is barely functioning. And on top of that, in a desperate attempt four weeks ago to reverse the course of his disease, doctors at San Francisco General Hospital infused him with an experimental bone-marrow transplant from a baboon. Immunologists warned that his body would eventually reject the nonhuman tissue and that the operation would almost certainly end his life rather than prolong it. However, Getty is not only alive, but last week he was healthy enough to go home from the hospital. No matter how much time he has left, friends and family call him a medical miracle...
...imaginative new novel, Galatea 2.2 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 329 pages; $23), a book that should go immediately to the top of the year's 10-best lists. As the title suggests, one of the novel's central themes is the bringing to life, and to independent awareness, of inert, nonhuman matter. The Galatea in this reworking of the myth is not a statue but an enormously complex network of computer circuitry, and the Pygmalions-there are a couple of them-are an acerbic cyber-scientist called Lentz and a becalmed writer named, sure enough, Richard Powers...