Word: humanize
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...soul of a certain quality...the teaching of music is fitting in relation to the nature of those of such [a young] age." Hsn Tzu, a Chinese philosopher born about 70 years before Aristotle, wrote that music is "the key to central harmony and a necessary requirement of human emotion...
...LEHRER: You recently described your opponent as "a disgusting, wormlike excuse for a human being." What did you mean by that...
Maybe voters don't actually have to want to invite the candidate over for dinner, so long as they can make some kind of human connection. When it came to that type of empathy, Bill Clinton had wires shooting out in all directions: he knew what it was like to be from the wrong side of the tracks, what it was like to be the fat kid. He knew what it was like to have problems with his wife, and to be fired in a public and humiliating way. Bush has talked about what prompted him to lock the liquor...
...that Gore didn't try to make people like him. He tested new pickup lines and spruced up his wardrobe and shared warm stories about his family. At the Democratic Convention, his team shoved him back into the race by making him as human as was humanly possible: one long kiss, a bright blond daughter, a speech flavored more by its conviction than its condescension. But even Gore strategist Carter Eskew thinks the whole "likability" question is "another sort of pundit myth," comparable to the charge that Bush doesn't have the "gravitas" to be President. "The question is, What...
...systems are doing some impressively high-end work. A Stanford University lab recently launched Folding@home, a public project that uses the technology to investigate how proteins fold into the shapes that determine their function. Meanwhile, Distributed.net is working with the U.K.'s Sanger Centre to help map the human genome...