Word: humanize
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...Anytime someone is allowed to defame any category of people, whether by description or depiction, those people can become regarded as less than human. In studies, the objects of such discrimination tend to be viewed as less important as individuals and less deserving of a place in our society. What does it matter if hurt or harm comes to such people, such thinking goes; they're not as important as the rest of us, and consequently less worthy of our regard and concern. This erosion of mutual respect is just that: a mutual loss...
...novel follows, in broad outline, the formula of the earlier books, rescuing Harry from some summer suffering at the home of the Dursleys, his dreadful Muggle (nonmagical human) relatives; transporting him and his two best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry; and then exposing the hero to another threat from Lord Voldemort, the fearsome Dark wizard who murdered his parents but mysteriously failed to kill the one-year-old Harry at the same time...
...Psychologists seem of two minds about the real-life effects such rejection can have on the human psyche. On the one hand, the deafening if fleeting humiliation can magnify insecurities a contestant might have about him or herself, and the return to normal life as an unpopular non-millionaire could be a rude awakening (both shows employ counselors who try and ease that transition). On the other hand, as Los Angeles TV news shrink Carol Lieberman told the New York Post, those 15 minutes of fame can be a powerful balm. "I'm not saying it's not humiliating," Lieberman...
TEACHERS' PETS Here's a novel way for men to boost their odds of a happy marriage: Don't teach in high school or college. New research published in Evolution and Human Behavior says men who teach there are more likely to be divorced than other men because of their regular exposure to young, attractive women. Also, they are less likely to remarry than other divorced...
...grand, epic scheme of human events, 71 years isn't all that long, one supposes. But for a political party in what has been at least a nominal democracy, 71 years is a virtual eternity in power. Were the Institutional Revolutionary Party (such a wonderful, oxymoronic name) a basketball team, it'd be the old Boston Celtics; if they were playing hockey in Mexico City the PRI would surely be the Canadiens...