Word: humaneness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...3/504 was very heavy-handed with the people in Vitina," said an unidentified lieutenant colonel - also a military policeman - who witnessed the unit in action. "I tend to think that human dignity and respect are values, and not just rules of engagement," he said. "We, as Americans, have an innate feeling for what is right and wrong...
Larry Harvey may be the first truly pragmatic utopian. "The problem with utopias is that they are based on some theory of human nature," he says, as he is joined on his couch by a topless woman, a punk called Chicken John and a transvestite glam rock star named Adrian Roberts. "Static utopias based on a priori notions are doomed to failure." Surprisingly, utopias where you have to bring your own toilet paper work just fine...
...only 50 of the animals had made dens in the state, but three decades of conservation has allowed them to flourish. Now with homes--and the attendant edible trash--encroaching on bear habitats, ursine-human encounters have risen in kind. And it isn't just in Jersey. Since 1993, the continent's bear population has increased 75%, to 700,000, according to the North American Bear Center in Ely, Minn. Today 27 states sanction shoots...
...down. They tag her, fit a radio transmitter around her neck and extract a baby tooth to study. Then they release her in a wildlife-management area, shooting her with rubber buckshot as she scampers off. That's what Eriksen calls "attitude conditioning," intended to instill a fear of humans. But that fear is often overcome when hunger meets the smell of stale baked goods and other human delicacies, most of which, the bears have learned, do not lead into traps...
...banners bearing biblical passages. The local school board, which had voted to test the limits of the court decision, helped organize the students. Over in Knoxville, Tenn., Hannah Wood, 17, an assistant football trainer and chapter president of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, persuaded 250 people to form a human prayer chain on the asphalt track around the football field. At her school, officials say they could not have stopped the protest from happening, even though the plan had been featured in the local paper...