Word: humanization
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...very clear that today's commercial electronics are higher performance, lower cost and higher quality than the same goods built by defense contractors," says Jacques Gansler, a Washington- based defense economist. Moreover, much of American's innovative brainpower will turn to designing products that enhance, rather than threaten, human lives. If inventors working for the military and space programs could create everything from bulletproof plastic to magnetic-resonance scanners, they could probably come up with consumer products that would put even Sony to shame...
...Cuba in 1959, the two former guerrillas became disenchanted. Chanes, a security guard who served briefly in the revolutionary government, began to criticize Castro; Diaz, a fisherman and bus driver, joined a paramilitary dissident group in Miami. In 1961 Chanes was arrested for plotting to assassinate Castro, a charge human-rights groups believe was trumped up. Although Chanes' 30-year sentence expires next year, his former prison mates doubt he will be set free. Diaz was seized in 1968, while attempting to smuggle counterrevolutionaries and supplies into Cuba. He was sentenced to a total of 40 years in prison...
...instant communications, when the freeing of Mandela is viewed by millions of people, public pressure can influence some repressive regimes. Human-rights activists believe Singapore improved the conditions of Chia Thye Poh's confinement out of fear that when South Africa released Mandela, world attention would focus on the remaining long-termers. Still, other governments seem impervious to criticism. "Each country is a separate case," notes Richard Reoch, information director of London-based Amnesty International. There are limits too to how hard foreign governments will press allies on human-rights issues. The U.S., for example, remained mute over the February...
...What I have found instead is that a traumatized psyche has combined with a self- congratulatory ethos to distort the true meaning of the Jewish tradition. Hardly a day passes without my wondering if we will ever progress beyond the ghetto mentality that repudiates dialogue with the best of human thought and culture. Retaining one's sanity and belief in the future is a constant challenge here...
...recall that Moses enjoined the Jews to be a holy people -- rather than declare that they already were. Most important for Hartman is the story of Creation, the Bible's very first tale, the one that precedes God's designation of Israel as His chosen people. "God created every human being in his image," says Hartman, "including Palestinians. Creation is what takes the Jews out of their own story and places them in the cosmic drama. The Bible begins with creation to teach us that God is not Jewish, that there is a world that has a dignity not defined...