Word: humaneness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...December, as does the group. Many expect biotech stocks to rally again in coming months as investors rotate out of overplayed Internet stocks and get past the foolish remarks from President Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who recently urged researchers striving to map the sequence of the human genome to share their findings...
Most of the excitement in the market today centers on such newcomers as Celera and Human Genome Resources, which sell their genetic data to drug companies. The hope is that these data will lay bare the road to many powerful new medicines. And I have little doubt that someday they will. Until then, though, we're still dealing with promises. If you're convinced that promises will become profits, by all means invest. But be smart about it. Buy a basket of biotechs, and limit your exposure to 5% of your total portfolio. Don't get me wrong...
...known photojournalists of the past 20 years, works along those edges. His passport has been stamped in some of the most chaotic spots of the postwar era--Northern Ireland, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Lebanon, Afghanistan--places where history always seems to finish its work in a room where there is human waste spilled across the concrete floor and blood smeared on the wall and the bare light bulb of reason is not much help or comfort...
...obscene in one literal sense of that word--from ob scena, Latin for offstage--the sights to be kept from the view of the audience. In the parts of the world where Nachtwey does his work, public affairs have become not much more than a subdepartment of the larger human impulse toward bloodlust. People are regularly dismembered and disfigured. Their arms are blown off, their teeth are broken, and they are starved. "I am trying to upset people," Nachtwey said recently. "I am trying to interrupt their...
Once upon a time, new employees didn't have much wiggle room when it came to benefits; the lucky ones could negotiate for a few more days of vacation. Those days, as frazzled human resource managers know, are long gone. In today's tight labor market, many job seekers are enticed by laundry lists of benefits, ranging from health club memberships to vacation shares in the Caribbean. And now, thanks to some clever capitalist thinking, even prospective employees' pets can profit from the competition; according to Associated Press reports, a growing number of companies are offering pet health plans...