Word: humaneness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...love of actual risk, as opposed to the idea of risk, or the illusion of risk, is rare in human beings. In politicians it is downright freakish. But McCain has it, and it affects his political life in all sorts of ways, big and small. One small but revealing example: his speech announcing his presidential candidacy contained a line that began "I have passed from a young man to an old one in the service of my country." It was a throwaway line, a line McCain couldn't have cared less about. If the speechwriter had just discreetly crossed...
...policymakers struggle in the coming months to find ways of keeping patients better informed about the perils of gene therapy, scientists will be struggling to find safer, more effective ways of introducing corrective bits of dna into the human body. But cutting-edge medical research is never risk-free. "The bottom line is that we are embarking on a new age of therapy," says Dr. Yuman Fong of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. "There will be untoward side effects, and people may die from these therapies...
...lines. "It's to the point where mothers are actually telling single daughters to search for their husbands on the Web," says Trish McDermott of Match.com an Internet dating service that boasts about 100,000 active members. Like similar services, Match.com attempts to rationalize and organize that messiest of human endeavors--finding love, or its closest substitute. Users, who pay $100 a year, fill out a questionnaire listing their height and weight and personal interests. Like brokerage customers screening mutual funds according to their desire for current income or long-term capital appreciation, users also specify their romantic goals...
...superheroes who didn't always feel or act nobly. For his creations, being a superhero was a job; one Spider-Man found Spidey trying unsuccessfully to cash a check in his name (no id). With humor and an ear for the vernacular ("It's clobberin' time!"), Lee put the human in superhuman...
...bird watching and keeps up on the latest theories of the cosmologists. After setting down a bravura description of the Big Bang, Everett adds, "In fact if God is involved in this matter, these elemental facts, these apparent concepts, He is so fearsome as to be beyond any human entreaty for our solace, or comfort, or the redemption that would come of our being brought into His secret...