Word: protecters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...idea that runs counter to the Founding Fathers' vision of inalienable rights that can neither be taken away for bad behavior nor awarded for good conduct. Those rights, says Amnesty International deputy director Curt Goering, "apply to all of us--even the worst. And in the end, they protect...
...dirty little secrets of the death penalty, says Franklin Zimring, director of the Earl Warren Legal Institute at the University of California, Berkeley, is the way it "aggravates the suffering of people it's supposed to protect." Because capital punishment presents death as the target, the defendant "wins" for as long as he avoids execution. "We create a recipe for enragement and frustration," Zimring says...
...YORK CITY: Hearing the distant rumble of government horses, Microsoft and Netscape have (gasp) joined forces to protect Web users' online privacy. Users are bristling about the use of a technology called "cookies" that tracks surfing habits to create a demographic profile prized by advertisers. Recent FTC online privacy hearings have put the fear of Big Government into industry leaders. "Despite their rivalry, Microsoft and Netscape share the desire to grow the market," says TIME's David Jackson, "and it makes sense for them to join together to assuage people's concerns early on. If they don't, people just...
...Angeles, "my T-ball practice was canceled week after week because of smog. Now the air is cleaner." The morning of his speech, he had overflown the Willamette National Forest, its mountaintops scalped by clear-cutting. But rather than preaching doom, he boasts of recent blockades to protect old-growth enclaves. "I hate environmentalists who are always grouchy," he explains afterward. "They forget the joy of making a difference...
...natural specimens he collected and drew, and personal effects such as his embroidered leather coat and trousers, beaded moccasins and bear-claw necklace. And all these artifacts are rather dimly lit, since the Smithsonian could not afford to install the fiber-optic lighting that would protect precious illustrations from fading. But Audubon would have found any tribute to himself insufficient; while he lived, he was as easy to admire for his achievements as he was difficult to like for his aggressive and vainglorious personality...