Word: humanization
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Stevens is part of a national trend: the Detroit-based Welfare Rights Organization says similar candidates will run this fall in the Oakland mayoral race and legislative contests in Michigan and Maryland. A veteran welfare- rights lobbyist who earned a college degree in human-services planning, Stevens expects to be included in candidate debates and get equal radio and TV time. "We have homeless people fighting every day for food and shelter," she says. "Someone has to speak for them. That's what I intend...
...HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER. The adaptation of Tom Clancy's best-selling nuclear- submarine saga (with sturdy Sean Connery) earns its thrills; it nicely balances human menace with technical gee-wizardry. But could this scenario happen in Gorbachev's navy...
...fierce Scythians, who swarmed in from the east around 700 B.C., driving out the resident Cimmerians. The Greek historian Herodotus, who lived for a time in the Black Sea trading post of Olbia, wrote with a shudder that the Scythians' customs "are not such as I admire." Among them: human sacrifice, blinding of slaves and drinking from the skulls of fallen enemies. Still stronger tribes kept invading and conquering this region that is now the Ukraine: first the Sarmatians; then, in Roman times, the Goths and Huns; then, after the fall of Rome, the Avars and Khazars. The Khazar dynasty...
...study of four public cholesterol-screening programs, published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers found that only one produced accurate results consistently. The worst program was off the mark in almost 25% of the tests. A recent survey by the Department of Health and Human Services of such mass operations found that the "technicians" conducting the tests often had little or no training. More than half the people screened at 71 sites had their fingers squeezed, or "milked," to draw blood. This is known to dilute the blood with other fluids and produce an artificially...
...Nile and the Euphrates Rivers(only a portion of which is now under the sovereignty of the state of Israel). Some of this land was originally conquered by the biblical Israelites from the peoples of Canaan, peoples whom the Bible records as steeped in immoral practices such as human sacrifice and incest. But it was conquest nonetheless...