Word: humanitarian
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...hundred years, as we turn to another new century--nay, ten times a hundred years, when we turn to another new millennium--the name that will prove most enduring from our own amazing era will be that of Albert Einstein: genius, political refugee, humanitarian, locksmith of the mysteries of the atom and the universe...
...goat isn't exactly at the top of every teenager's wish list, but that's what Dee Hahn, 58, of Redmond, Wash., bought her grandson Jeremy, now 14, last Christmas. Through World Vision, a nonprofit humanitarian organization, Hahn spent $75 in Jeremy's name to buy a dairy goat that will supply milk for a child-headed Rwandan family. Other items in the nonprofit's catalog include a birthday party for a Romanian orphanage ($30), and a survival pack for a resettling family from Kosovo ($80). The gifts are tax deductible, and gift recipients receive a card from World...
...McCain's position on American intervention has also wavered. In 1983 he stood up to one of his idols, Ronald Reagan, and called for a pullout of Marines from Lebanon. He was a staunch supporter of the Gulf War and the initial humanitarian mission in Somalia but demanded U.S. troops be withdrawn after the combat deaths of 18 Americans there. McCain vacillated over the Balkans: in 1993 he opposed air strikes against the Bosnian Serbs, but in late 1995 he lobbied hard to secure Senate support for Clinton's deployment of troops to enforce the Dayton peace agreement. McCain quickly...
...test and market, in the U.S., a meningitis vaccine developed by Cuban scientists. Embargo rules still require SmithKline to pay initially in barter instead of dollars--a Yanqui condition that aides expected Castro to reject. To their surprise, he approved it. "We'll do this," he said, "as a humanitarian gesture for American children...
...Chechen fighters in Grozny, Chechen officials claim the number of civilians is closer to 50,000. Western human rights monitors in the region warned over the weekend that civilians in Grozny face starvation, and were unable to flee because of the constant bombardment. Whether or not a humanitarian catastrophe unfolds in Grozny, the siege of the city may be a sign of a new type of warfare. "This isn't really country against country," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "It's Russia fighting against an informal army that isn't clearly answerable to a defined political center, and which...