Word: humaneness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Apparently they can pay you enough. It seems some people will do anything, even be human guinea pigs, if the price is right. Consider the following clinical trials, all submitted to by consenting adults...
...like, 'Oh, boy! What was I thinking?'" His feet rest on the coffee table in his office, next to a tiny version of himself, a Braveheart doll wearing a kilt and waving a sword. "I think time makes one more aware of the light and shade in human behavior," he says. "Most people get better with time. The sad part is, you get old and ugly as you get better." Then he laughs, knowing that even with the aging, there's not much for him to be sad about...
...number of children unable to be cared for in their own homes. Opening one's home and heart to a foster child is one of the most important civic duties a person can perform. You missed an opportunity to make things better. WILLIAM WALDMAN EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR American Public Human Services Association Washington...
...soap opera in the future, actors have been replaced by robots, or "actoids," and one of them is acting up--showing signs of a human-like sense of humor. In the Manhattan Theatre Club's U.S. premiere of Ayckbourn's West End success, Janie Dee reprises her astonishing London performance as a robot whose emotions are an amalgam of all the bad scenes she's ever played. The play is astonishing too: at once a shrewd satire of TV, a warming love story and a potent meditation on the nature of humanity...
...mention this history in order to introduce my real subject - the infinitely civilized, decent, and human Michel de Montaigne, sometime mayor of Bordeaux and inventor of the modern essay. Montaigne, a Catholic whose mother was a Jew, lived squarely in the middle of the religious wars, yet managed to survive them handsomely and even to be a friend to Henri of Navarre and Henri of Guise, not out of duplicity but out of sheer decency...