Word: humaneness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Internet business looks to be on a natural catch-its-breath break, waiting for efficiencies to move outside the office and wired-everything technologies to mature. It happened after the Industrial Revolution, too. But when tech turns human, we're an ordinary economy, and one in an old-fashioned business-cycle global downturn at that. Tech has not been around to prop up America this fall, and so the rest of the world is sinking too. Rate cuts are coming in the spring - maybe sooner - but the NASDAQ is drowning in its own dashed expectations. Greenspan won't be able...
...Bush could be in for a battle over Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson - a pioneer of welfare reform and dedicated pro-lifer - who could take over the Department of Health and Human Services. In fact, some observers say the President-elect may be trying to smooth the path for his more contentious nominees by floating the name of New Jersey governor Christie Todd Whitman, a liberal, pro-choice Republican, who is expected to take the helm of the Environmental Protection Agency...
...medical checks and interrogations obviously touch the once untouchable general, and the military doesn't like this. But they also know nothing is actually happening to the general. Even if he's under house arrest, it's not as if he leaves his house much anyway. But for the human rights activists, pressing these cases against Pinochet even though he'll never actually go to jail serves a purpose - it's a way of putting him and his regime on trial without actually forcing him to go to court...
...technologies may expand human potential, but they can be used for both good or ill. Now that we can plow deeper and faster than ever before, will we have the wisdom to know if we have plowed too far? We think that we control our watermills--but will our watermills one day begin controlling...
...diseases aren't going away. Some 65 million Americans are currently infected with one or more STDs, and 15 million new infections occur each year. Most disturbing, after two decades of decline, gonorrhea incidence is up 9% since 1997. Meanwhile, 18% of women and 8% of men carry the human papilloma virus that causes half of all cervical-cancer cases. All the more reason to use a condom.--By Janice M. Horowitz...