Word: humaneness
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...this country the criminal justice system is not accounting for the inherent racism in this country, and we claim to be the country setting the standard on human rights," she said...
...distance himself. With a $1.6 billion U.S. aid package to the Colombian military at stake, President Andres Pastrana and U.S. drug czar General Barry McCaffrey found themselves forced Thursday to defend the Colombian army from allegations that it remains intimately connected with right-wing paramilitary groups notorious for human rights abuses. But despite Pastrana and McCaffrey's insistence that the military remains clean, Human Rights Watch reported Wednesday that there are documented ties between at least half of Colombia's army brigades and the paramilitaries, which range from supplying arms and equipment to sharing intelligence and joint planning...
...military assistance to Colombia is intended for the war against drugs, but the line between counter-narcotics operations and counterinsurgency is blurred by both sides in Colombia's 40-year civil war: Leftist guerrillas, dubbed "narco-terrorists" by Washington, are believed to finance themselves via the drug trade; but human rights groups assert that neither side is entirely innocent of involvement in the narcotics industry. And the reports that the U.S.-backed military is cooperating with paramilitary groups that have killed thousands of civilians won't do anything to allay the fears of legislators on Capitol Hill concerned that deepening...
...experts view Atkins et al. with a healthy dose of skepticism. These diets are extreme, and almost no one is capable of sticking with a no-fat diet, or an all-protein diet or a diet with no sugar. And most likely, says Dr. Smith, that safety valve of human nature is a good thing, because no one should be on these programs for an extended period. "Generally, doctors are telling their patients not to go on these diets because there is no rigorous, peer-reviewed study showing any of these diets to be effective in the long term...
...anonymity, an aggressive connection made from the safety of disconnection. In recent days, a Stanford University study found that the Internet is dangerously atomizing American society. "The more hours people use the Internet," said Norman Nie, a principal investigator for the study, "the less time they spend with real human beings...