Word: subjectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though the United Nations maintains 16 camps for the 101,000 Indochinese refugees in Thailand at a cost of $11.5 million a year-$9.9 million of it provided by the U.S.-many would-be migrants are subject to cruel exploitation the instant they reach Thailand. All refugees arriving in the country, whether by sea or land, are considered "illegal entrants" and are fined up to $75. Those who cannot pay are often jailed, sometimes in open-air cages...
Doctors play a guessing game about which drugs to use in combatting cancer. One problem is human individuality-what helps one person may fail to help another. In the search for the proper medicine, doctors must often subject a patient to a sequence of powerful drugs, many of which turn out to be ineffective against the malignant cells. Now a simple technique promises a means of testing the effectiveness of drugs in a specific case of cancer-without having to administer them to the patient...
...48th book, Emily Hahn surveys the evidence leading to this question and cautiously alights on the side of the monkeys. It is something of a miracle that in Look Who's Talking! she does not end up talking to herself. For the controversial subject of communication between humans and animals can be one long semantic rabbit hole down which any curious Alice can easily lose her orientation. Definitions of language differ among physiologists, behaviorists, linguists and philosophers, with the gloomy Ludwig Wittgenstein once suggesting that even if a lion could talk, we would not understand it. Sapient quadrupeds...
...manipulation of word symbols called lexigrams have often found this to be true. A full-grown chimpanzee has great strength and must be respected. Says one scientist: "If I get into an argument with Billy or Washoe or some of the other chimps, I try to change the subject." Earlier books on the subject report that some simian students are eager to join the human club. A female chimp placed a photo of herself in a pile with Eleanor Roosevelt but a snapshot of her own father with the four-legged beasts. A chimp with a degree in Yerkish...
...provoked into a small but redeeming act of political defiance. These subtle, honest tales are apt to be considered literary oddities, parochial stories set in an exotic political landscape. They deserve greater esteem. The Execution of Mayor Yin is in the great tradition of Orwell and Solzhenitsyn; its true subject is the survival-and sometimes the defeat-of the human spirit in its lonely quest for integrity...