Word: humaneness
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...recreational facilities, and a beautiful courtyard. Moreover, the dining hall staff in particular play an essential role in community life developing close relationships with all the students while working tirelessly to create events that stimulate interaction. Essential to any intellectual experience at any level is the need for curious human beings to be able to reflect upon their own beliefs in light of the opinions of others very different from them...
Recent commencement speakers include Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan; Mary Robinson, U.N High Commissioner for Human Rights and former President of Ireland; U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright; Harold Varmus, director of the National Institutes of Health; Vaclav Havel, president of the Czech Republic, and Vice President Al Gore...
Rebuking China's human rights record may have become an essential part of selling a China trade deal on Capitol Hill, but that doesn't mean Beijing has to play ball. The U.S. suffered an embarrassing defeat in the U.N. Human Rights Commission Wednesday, when the international body voted in support of Beijing to table Washington's resolution condemning Chinese abuses. Despite a U.S. lobbying campaign that began in January - and included a rare personal appearance by Secretary of State Madeleine Albright before the commission in Geneva - Beijing's motion was supported by 22 countries and opposed by only...
...course, in pointing to China's deteriorating human rights situation over the past year, particularly in respect of repression of religious activities, the State Department may risk raising questions about the basic premise of U.S. "engagement" with China - that trade with the West and economic reform will have a liberalizing effect on Chinese society. Then again, even if Washington had succeeded in orchestrating a nasty wrist-slap of Beijing by a U.N. talk shop, it might not have significantly altered the prospects for passing the China trade deal on Capitol Hill. After all, while they cite concerns over human rights...
...course, any future mutations, which could take several human generations to occur, are of little concern to the thousands of Americans who currently succumb to superbugs each year. "Antibiotic resistance is a huge problem both in nursing homes and in hospitals, where people's immune systems tend to be compromised to begin with," notes Horowitz. "And the pharmaceutical companies have many more antibiotics in development. It's a huge market where companies can make a lot of money...