Word: humanizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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LUCAS: It's essentially the same, just in a different kind of way. Darth Vader was half machine, half man, and that's where he lost a lot of his humanity. He has mechanical legs. He has mechanical arms. He's hooked up to a breathing machine. This one is all human. I wanted him to be an alien, but I wanted him to be human enough that we could identify with...
LUCAS: There are a lot of people like that. And that's what I wonder. What is it in the human brain that gives us the capacity to be as evil as human beings have been in the past and are right...
...does not want to be the world's policeman, but if there is ever to be peace, then action must be taken to ensure this goal. It is proper that the U.S., as the most powerful nation in the world, with high ideals of human rights, lead efforts to preserve peace. America's actions in Kosovo to protect the Albanians, a Muslim people, from genocide and abuse of their human rights show a commitment to a just and peaceful world without any bias of race, religion or nationality. DWIGHT M. GOWDEY Seattle
...wavering between the deplorable poles of hypocrisy and naivete. After reflection, however, I find that both President Clinton and Krauthammer are correct. The Kosovo affair seems like the pursuit of knowledge. One ought to gain some new learning and put it to use. But omniscience and omnipotence are beyond human capacity. MIKE M. BEHESHTI North Salt Lake, Utah...
...extinction spasms, the last of which came 66 million years ago. Those were brought about by natural phenomena. When it occurs, the sixth mass extinction of living organisms will be brought about by people, by a mushrooming population that has doubled in 40 years, to 6 billion, and by human carelessness and commerce. In the 21st century, which Raven would like to see called "the age of biology," he says we must learn to "master the diversity of living organisms and use the properties of those organisms as a kind of palette to build sustainability...