Word: humaneness
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Over in the private sector, Netpreneurs are trying to tap into the same community computing power for commercial purposes, selling it to industries in dire need of supercomputer muscle. One lucrative market: biotechs and pharmaceuticals trying to analyze data from the Human Genome Project. "The genome is so huge, and it takes so long to analyze even a single protein, that there's no way to do it without resorting to some sort of distributed computing," says Vijay Pande, who runs Folding@home...
...long overdue, say disability-rights advocates. "In general, the international community has failed to recognize that the abuses against people with disabilities are pervasive and constitute international human-rights violations," says Eric Rosenthal, executive director of Mental Disability Rights International. But the new doorway to America has its critics, who counter that asylum laws were not intended for the disabled. They are worried that interpreting the law in such a manner could lead to a flood of disabled refugees seeking advanced medical treatments in the U.S. under the guise of escaping persecution. "The categories for a social group seem...
...never occurred to Laurie Tennant that she would quit her job when she had kids. "Growing up, my friends dreamed of their weddings or of the families they would have," Tennant, 37, says. "I dreamed about my career." She loved her job as a director of human resources for the Northern California branch of a Big Six consulting company and went right back to work after her daughter Hannah was born in 1993. "I felt no pull from home when I was at work and no pull from work when I was at home. I felt perfectly balanced." Then...
Robert Billingham, professor of human and family studies at Indiana University at Bloomington, suggests instilling in children the idea that safety and comfort reside not in the physical space or the objects but in their connection to their family. While children are still at home, you can gently tell them, "A year or two after you graduate, we'll make this into an office...
...school for his first day," says animal behaviorist Jeff Foster, who has worked with whales for 30 years. But Keiko did not, Hollywood-style, swim off with his relatives into the sunset on this August day. Once again he returned to the boat and his more familiar human companions...