Word: humaneness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...feel somewhat sorry for these pharmaceutical companies - the idea of profiting off human misery may seem reprehensible, but it is, after all, the very logic of the market economy in medicine. Pharmaceutical corporations are not venal or callous; they're simply corporations. And they behave as corporations are supposed to do, maximizing their profits, protecting and expanding their market share and pumping money into the political process to keep Washington sweet on their interests...
...face-saving declaration - is cultivating compromises that each side can market as the realization of the objectives for which it fought in the first place. But whatever is achieved in the emotional, pressure-cooker atmosphere of sequestered peace talks - which in their design induce claustrophobia and the very human desire to simply bring the nightmare to an end in the minds of negotiators from both sides - is inevitably subject to sharply conflicting interpretations once the negotiators return home. All of which suggests that President Clinton won't be able to claim ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as part...
There's nothing new or mysterious about voyeurism. Television programmers have just rediscovered normal human behavior [TELEVISION, June 26]. From the beginning of time, people have enjoyed watching others. The thrill we get from seeing Survivor is the same thrill that Jimmy Stewart got from secretly observing his neighbors in Rear Window and that parkgoers get from watching lovers neck on a bench. SHERRI CADEAUX Holland, Mich...
Anytime someone is allowed to defame any category of people, whether by description or depiction, those people can become regarded as less than human. In studies, the objects of such discrimination tend to be viewed as less important as individuals and less deserving of a place in our society. What does it matter if hurt or harm comes to such people, such thinking goes; they're not as important as the rest of us, and consequently less worthy of our regard and concern. This erosion of mutual respect is just that: a mutual loss...
...sexiest presence in a movie last year? If you said Jude Law in The Talented Mr. Ripley, you get to go to the next round. This time, Law is a vampirish Londoner feasting on the blood of the women he beds and kills. Now he wants to be human, although he realizes that falling in love means an end to his predatory life. From its first shot, of a mangled car high up in the branches of a tree, this cool, handsome thriller proceeds with an elliptical elegance. Leong is the compassionate surgeon operating on a disease called longing...