Word: humanization
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Hasn't human progress brought us to a point where technology might cause our own extinction...
...think that is why our prospects for survival are really not great. People talk about human intelligence as the greatest adaptation in the history of the planet. It is an amazing and marvelous thing, but in evolutionary terms, it is as likely to do us in as to help us along...
...Polhill's secret message to Bush suggest to terrorists that this was a way to communicate with the President? "I don't worry so much as to the message," said Bush. "What I do worry about is if anybody perceives that we're putting a higher price on some human being by all of this . . . I sorted it out and did my best...
Borne into the U.S. on private jets, inside the scuzzy trunks of old cars or even on flimsy rubber rafts equipped with cellular phones, the shipments of human cargo are surging. The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 was supposed to stem this tide, mostly by beefing up enforcement and nabbing employers who hire these aliens. But the number of illegals apprehended by federal agents, 954,000 in 1989, is suddenly rising sharply. In a perverse way, IRCA has enhanced the smuggling trade by motivating undocumented aliens to plan their trips more carefully. Result: up to half the estimated...
...Instead, they are held hostage until smuggling fees are paid by relatives. The smugglers typically cram 20 to 30 aliens in each padlocked room for days on end, leaving them to sleep and defecate on the floor. Occasionally, their heads are shaved in order to subjugate them. "It's human cargo, one of the most despicable things on the face of the earth," says Gerald Klippness, a Los Angeles INS official. "These aliens don't have any idea what's in store for them...