Word: humanization
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Despite the carnage, America stands poised to face an even greater escalation of bloodshed. The growing popularity of military-style assault weapons could turn our streets into combat zones. Assault weapons, designed solely to mow down human beings, are turning up at an alarming rate in the hands of those most prone to violence -- drug dealers, gang members, hate groups and the mentally...
Hospital officials insist that the misadministered dose was simply human error. They are seeking to have a $14,000 fine reduced or even dismissed. Lane, whose chances of developing cancer could increase more than 4% every year, is fearful about the future. "What if my health insurance gets canceled?" she asks. "What about ((my children's)) college? It looks like I'm not going to be here for them...
...Science, the asbestos "crisis" is grossly exaggerated, and the public would do well to save its dread and its dollars. Says Brooke Mossman, a cell biologist at the University of Vermont College of Medicine and the lead author of the report: "Low-level exposure is not a threat to human health. The scare is unprecedented, and the amount spent on asbestos removal is ridiculous." In fact, say Mossman and her co-authors, removal often puts more asbestos into the air than was there in the first place...
...Uptown is simply a product designed to appeal to a particular market segment. To critics, it represents the cold-blooded targeting of blacks, who suffer a lung-cancer rate 58% higher than whites. Uptown's opponents won powerful support last week when Louis Sullivan, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, blasted the cigarette-marketing plan. Said he: "Uptown's message is more disease, more suffering and more death for a group already bearing more than its share of smoking-related illness and mortality." R.J. Reynolds, for its part, denounced the "unfair and biased attention" that had been focused...
...will speak for Panamanians who are not represented by General Manuel Noriega or the current U.S.-backed government. "What I propose is to create what up to this point has been a mythical place: a Latin America that respects and loves itself, is incorruptible, romantic, nationalistic and has a human perception of the needs of the world at large." Blades is traveling to Panama next month to "see the situation for myself" but refuses to predict when he might return there permanently. Says Blades: "I can tell you this, I will go back to Panama...