Word: humanization
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...ties have grown noticeably in such areas as science, education and culture, and particularly in informal human contacts. We have increased the flow of all kinds of information about each other in both directions, and it is becoming more objective...
...unlike the campaign against companies doing business in South Africa. In a letter that came to light last week, Harvard University President Derek Bok disclosed that the school has divested its holdings in tobacco companies because their products "create a substantial and unjustified risk of harm to other human beings." At the City University of New York, trustees voted last week to dump its $3.5 million worth of tobacco stocks. The C.U.N.Y. divestiture was owing, in part, to the prompting of vice chairman Edith Everett, who serves on the board of a new lobbying group called the Tobacco Divestment Project...
...product of a nationalist revolution. Moreover, China is still a poor, developing country whose huge, largely peasant population has had little exposure to the concept of democracy. The average Chinese tends to be more protective of his recently acquired right to grow cash crops than of the human rights for which students demonstrated last spring...
...Chinese figures the world came to know in the course of last year's tumult, the most memorable was anonymous: that wiry young man who halted a column of tanks near Tiananmen Square by simply standing in front of them. Later, human rights groups identified the man as Wang Weilin, the 19-year-old son of a Beijing factory worker. Wang was reportedly arrested soon after his brave deed and accused of being a "counterrevolutionary, a traitor and a political hooligan" who attempted to subvert members of the army. Because of the severity of the charges, it was widely feared...
Outside of official circles in Beijing, however, no one will know the true cost in human life that day until China gets a leader with enough courage to throw light on one of the country's darkest episodes...