Word: humaneness
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...achievements are largely the result of a heightened pace of globalization that comes from high technology and the Internet. Having accomplished so much in such a short time, Americans do not seem to know where to go. There appears to be an identity crisis. Materialism can't satiate all human desires. PRABHAT KUMAR New Delhi...
...response to your question "can we prevent another Columbine?" [EDUCATION, April 24], the answer is most assuredly no--not with our present philosophy. If a person really wants to kill another human being, it is going to happen; there is no way to stop a desperate person. We can pass no laws to prevent this. We're trying to remove a splinter by cutting the whole finger off. MICHAEL YERKE Houghton, Mich...
OSCAR VERSION Laurence Olivier, Honorary Oscar, 1979: "In the great wealth, the great firmament of your nation's generosities, this particular choice may perhaps be found by future generations as a trifle eccentric, but the mere fact of it--the prodigal, pure human kindness of it--must be seen as a beautiful star in that firmament which shines upon me at this moment, dazzling me a little but filling me with warmth of the extraordinary elation, the euphoria that happens to so many of us at the first breath of the majestic glow of a new tomorrow...
...mail, the flamers and the virus writers often don't see the consequences of what they're doing. They are simply lashing out at what they often perceive as the big, greedy, distant, corporatized world. They don't quite grasp that the entities on the other end are human beings whose feelings can be hurt and whose personal and work lives can be disrupted...
Directed by Oscar-winning production designer Eugenio Zanetti (Restoration) and produced by Barnet Bain and Stephen Simon (What Dreams May Come), the $3 million Quantum Project wants to be the Jazz Singer of cybercinema--a landmark for the millennial medium. "The Net is a mirror for the way human beings think," says Bain. "Hypertext is the bedrock for a whole new nonlinear art form. When you're clicking your browser from site to site, you're exploring chaos theory. The scenes have no connection, except in your head. Quantum Project is like that. It's not just nonlinear...