Word: humanization
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...late Louis Leakey, for years the dominant male in the field of human- fossil studies, believed that women made better primate researchers than men. His Exhibit A was Jane Goodall, whose work on chimpanzees in Tanzania has been justly celebrated. Exhibit B also achieved acclaim but, on balance, muted the generalization. In 1966 Leakey sent Dian Fossey to the Congo slope of the Virunga volcanic forest to study the habits of the mountain gorilla. Fossey convinced the eminent prehistorian of her resolve with only a few free-lance articles she had written for the Louisville Courier-Journal. Her previous...
What Fossey had was determination and emotional hungers that drove her to extremes. She told her story in Gorillas in the Mist (1983), a bold mix of field observation, adventure and ecological tragedy. The mountain gorilla was being pushed out of its habitat by human population growth. Poachers were trapping the creatures for zoos or killing them for trophies. Gorilla heads made unusual hat racks. The hands could be used for ashtrays...
...cannot imagine your joy at the words 'Take him to the cell.' After many days of isolation," says Qassem, "I sometimes missed seeing the interrogator if he did not show up. To see a human face -- even...
Although he proposes a variety of extremely plausible theories, Ash aptly summarizes his personal explanation in three words--"Gorbachev, Helsinki and Tocqueville." The combination of Soviet liberalization, a internationally respected code of human rights and the lack of a coherent right to rule, he explains, set the stage for revolutions from both above and below...
MEDICINE: A fountain of youth in the human body...