Word: humanization
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TOLERATION of others does not entail acceptance of their lifestyles or even the willingness to mingle with them socially. Toleration only requires that we accept others as human beings entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...
...skills are not Saturn's only strong point. Since they were outfitting a plant from the ground up, Saturn's team members incorporated an array of new equipment and techniques. Their aim was to achieve what the M.I.T. study dubbed "lean production," the Japanese system that uses "half the human effort in the factory, half the manufacturing space, half the investment in tools, half the engineering hours to develop a new product." At Saturn, team members rejected the traditional U.S. form of assembly line, where workers do two things at once -- toil and shuffle -- as they struggle to keep...
Nobel awards have not always been so well received in Moscow. The only other Soviet Peace Prize laureate was the physicist and human-rights activist Andrei Sakharov, who was honored in 1975. One Soviet newspaper called that award "political pornography," and a statement by 72 of Sakharov's colleagues in the Soviet Academy of Sciences accused him of activities "aimed to undermine peace." The government refused to let him travel to Oslo for the ceremony, but his wife Yelena Bonner attended...
Mystery Science Theater 3000 has origins in the heartland as well: the show began life on a Minneapolis UHF station before being picked up last November by cable's Comedy Channel. Crummy old movies (Rocketship X-M, The Corpse Vanishes) are unspooled in their entirety, while three characters -- one human being and two gabby robots -- offer wisecracking commentary at the bottom of the screen...
...find them is the giant superconducting supercollider, to be built in Texas. The controversial project will cost at least $8 billion, but the Nobel winners support it. Like the devices they used in their work, says Kendall, the SSC "represents the price of the restless curiosity of the human race to understand the physical universe we inhabit...