Word: humanization
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...legendary Fountain of Youth to the current popularity of plastic surgery and Retin-A face cream, the search for ways to erase the sags and wrinkles of aging has never stopped. Now it appears that a partial antidote to the ravages of time may already lie within the human body. Last week, researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Milwaukee reported in the New England Journal of Medicine that injections of a naturally occurring substance called human growth hormone can firm up skin, build muscles and trim fat in elderly men, . making their...
CAPTION: EFFECTS OF HUMAN-GROWTH-HORMONE INJECTIONS IN MEN OVER...
...international fronts. But since he has barely even tried to put his personal stamp on these happy developments, credit must also go in large part to Bush's personality. He strikes people as a nice guy. Compared with Jimmy Carter (and, goodness knows, Michael Dukakis), he seems loose and human. Compared even with the saintly Ronald Reagan, he seems genuine, off the pedestal, really there. You can take him anywhere...
...dipt into the future, far as human eye could...
...meters, smashing into even greater waves of people at the mouth of a 550-meter-long tunnel dug through a mountain to ease the pietists' journey. The rain of bodies brought foot traffic to a halt, but at the tunnel's opposite end other hajjis, unaware of the human blockade, continued to shove forward. Soon the passageway was jammed with some 50,000 people, many times more than its capacity. Next, according to survivors, for reasons still unexplained, the lights in the tunnel went out and the ventilation system failed -- on a day when the temperature outside was a searing...