Word: questing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...should a paternalistic and moralistic quest for homogenization prevent first-years from enjoying some degree of choice in this very basic and very important decision...
...also highlights the unwitting complicity of ordinary citizens in the maintenance of totalitarian regimes. "Everyone is in fact involved and enslaved," Havel once told TIME. "Each person is capable, to a greater or lesser degree, of coming to terms with living within the lie." Almost alone in his quest, Havel has refused to compromise...
...watch my fellow human swimmers' expressions, which range from the merely ecstatic to the truly transported, the question arises, How can this be bad? The program is operated by two acknowledged marine-mammal experts whose company, Dolphin Quest, has created a sandy bottomed, virtually natural lagoon for the animals. Still, for some conservationists, "dolphin-fondling" programs (as they are dismissively called) are just one more way in which humans deprive highly intelligent animals of their freedom and put them at risk of disease or mishandling for the entertainment of customers and the enrichment of owners...
...Hyatt swim program is by far the most elaborate yet devised. Run by veterinarians Jay Sweeney and Rae Stone, it tries to be educational as well as profitable. Special sessions are held for schoolchildren, who learn all about dolphins. Hawaii's superintendent of education Charles Toguchi gives Dolphin Quest high marks for its programs with island schools. The operators also devote a portion of their receipts to funding research on ways to save dolphins from drowning in tuna nets...
...families say their quest for answers will persist until they learn who killed their relatives and how it was allowed to happen. Nor will they back down until air travel is made safer. "We are answering to our loved ones," says Ammerman. "We have all made a commitment not to stop until we satisfy that need." No one who has come up against them doubts the sincerity of that promise...