Word: humaneness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...idea that selective shots of our lives are representative isn't new. It's the basis for comic books, episodic TV shows and the classic celluloid biography. Highlight a couple of key points and get to the punchline, and the rest--the actions that make our words human-- follow nicely behind...
...maintain internal consistency that stretches across sections, columns, classes, personal space? I don't mean to sound schizophrenic; there is a certain inherent duplicity in human nature, which can also be called sensitivity or culture, which dictates that the way you break the news of your Ec grade to your parents, your roommates, your siblings and your drinking buddies (or whether you do) is not the same. But in a world where all is judged in snapshots--where consistency is not valued except as a "next" button--fitting the story together takes some work...
...convince those reactionary corporate pawns in the Senate to ratify the prudent Kyoto Protocol. Only Gore has written a book--a whole book!--on the subject, refreshingly entitled Earth in the Balance. Only Gore, therefore, can save civilization from the preeminent crisis now facing it, climactic Armageddon precipitated by human-driven global warming...
...community. Aides have reportedly seen him poring over back issues of Science magazine in the Congressional library. His favorite article to appear in Science is likely the relatively recent "Greenhouse Forecasting Still Cloudy," which reported that "many climate experts caution that it is not at all clear yet that human activities have begun to warm the planet--or how bad greenhouse warming will be when it arrives...
Gore might also want to check out the Heidelberg Appeal. Signed by 4000 plus scientists whose ranks number 70 Nobel Prize winners, the Appeal makes clear that regulating human output of greenhouse gases is, at least at this junction, not justified...