Word: humaneness
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...these aristocrats, money is meaningless. Their time is much more valuable. They give what they can afford to expend. The true philanthropist is the little guy who gives to another little guy--not for the tax write-off, but because it is the human thing to do. DENISE DENOVA Palm Harbor...
Tired of setting off airport metal detectors with your change, belt buckle or pacemaker? GARY SETTLES, director of the Penn State Gas Dynamics Lab, has an invention for you. According to Settles, the human body produces a column of warm air that rises from the feet to the top of one's head, catching constantly shedding skin cells. Settles even has a catchy name for this phenomenon: the human thermal plume. He has created a portal, similar to a walk-through metal detector, that can detect the presence of microscopic amounts of explosive material in the plume...
...affliction that causes bloating, loss of appetite, vomiting and dehydration. The drug eases a clenched stomach muscle to facilitate passage of food (much as it relaxes a muscle in the penis to allow blood flow)--at least in mice. Study results were so uplifting that researchers plan to start human trials as early as next month...
...Percentage of Internet CEOs who said that if trapped on a deserted isle, they'd eat a human to survive...
...Washington over what could be one of the decade's biggest overseas contracts for a U.S. defense firm. Bell Helicopter Textron is negotiating the final details of a $4 billion deal to sell 145 King Cobra attack choppers to Turkey. The Clinton Administration and Congress must approve the sale. Human-rights groups plus Greek and Armenian lobbies are mobilizing against it. Turkey has a human-rights record that remains "among the worst in the world," says Representative JOHN PORTER, an Illinois Republican, and has used U.S. weapons to attack Kurds in the southeast. To help the deal along, the Turkish...