Word: humaneness
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...vibrant democracy, India has been culturally integrated with the West for as long as Englishmen have been drinking tea, wearing khaki, playing polo and using words such as "pajama," "pundit" and "pariah" (all of which were imported from the Raj). Dowell concurs: "Despite its vast potential and wealth of human capital, U.S. investors see the country hamstrung by the remnants of a socialist administration - realizing the vast potential of this relationship will require that the U.S. be educated about what India really is, but also that India overcome the internal factors that have restrained its growth. When it does...
...always been fascinated by how some very fundamental things about the human condition can seem so bizarre when analyzed dispassionately (for instance, from the point of view of a six-year-old child). And of all the strange things about the human condition, I find our preoccupation with physical beauty one of the strangest. Not, of course, from a biological point of view but rather in the light of our own moral ideals...
...most people Cinderella's pretty and the stepsisters are plain. The awful thing is that time and again conviction should have proven so weak in the face of biology. I, for one, look forward to radical genetic engineering. Perhaps some day science will teach us how to make human beings not necessarily more physically perfect but rather less concerned with physical perfection...
...November, John D. Joerger, Gear's director of global human rights compliance, said Gear would only disclose factory locations to the universities themselves, not to the world via the Internet. Joerger could not be reached for comment yesterday...
While the FTC has been made aware of this discrepancy before, they've done little to address it, beyond assuring Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala in 1998 that they were "investigating" their current labeling methods. Health officials and doctors aren't feeling particularly patient, and are pressing for a major overhaul in the agency's procedures. "When full review of the FTC's process comes out, we suspect it will show current methods are not helpful at all," says Judith Wilkenfeld, Chair of the Committee for Tobacco Product Change in Washington, D.C. "We're long overdue...