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Word: humaneness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
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Though a lot of the devices featured in your wireless-world story were certainly nifty, the human stories that were tucked into the article were pretty awful. How horrifying to think one must always be connected to work, that getting that call or that e-mail is so important that you must immediately respond to it. How in the world can it be progress to give up all rights to a private life just because it's possible to do so? Are we turning into some sort of automaton consumers who live for commerce, or will we retain the spiritual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 19, 2000 | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

...debris" left in the candle's hollows, assumed by aficionados to be proof--however icky--that candling is doing its stuff, is nothing more than melted wax from the candle itself. As for those ear mites, "Dogs and cats have ear mites," says Asher. "I've never seen a human with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ear Candling | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

DIED. GEORGE SEGAL, 75, American Pop Art icon whose monochromatic sculptures were cast from live models and outfitted with bland commercial products; in South Brunswick, N.J. A so-called New Realist, he evoked the mystery and pathos of human existence in his tableaux...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jun. 19, 2000 | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

...universe is ruled by Drej, translucent, electric-blue beings of pure energy and malefic power. The lowest form of life is the human, including our hero Cale (voiced by Matt Damon), who has a lousy job sawing the edges off bulky space trawlers. Guess what? Cale has a great destiny in store once he hooks up with his dead dad's pal--tough, hard-to-read Korso (Bill Pullman)--and an intergalactic crew of comic villains, saintly mutants and the requisite feisty babe (Drew Barrymore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Star-toon Time | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

...only does it convert fuel into energy, but it also fabricates and pumps out proteins and enzymes according to the software encoded in its DNA. By recombining DNA from different species, genetic engineers have already learned to build new nanodevices--bacterial cells, for example, that pump out medically useful human hormones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Tiny Robots Build Diamonds One Atom At A Time? | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

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