Word: humanizes
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...find fat oppression an appalling and inadequate substitute for humor. Our society has yet to realize that the human body cannot easily be sculpted according to the culture's demands. In fact, we don't have much control over our body shape, and efforts to manipulate the body frequently trap individuals in a painful and psychologically draining cycle...
Furthermore, the draft is not a solution because the principle behind it is that the state has a right to send people to die for a cause in which they may or may not believe. The main moral evil of war is that human beings are used as ciphers in an account between political entities (nations or, more frequently, governments). Calling for the draft in the name of a class struggle only inflicts this evil on more people more quickly. Jendi Reiter...
...result, Dixon said, it was important to improve the city's school and more effectively coordinate human services...
...very difficult for residents of Cambridge, Mass., to understand the human consequences of war in the Gulf. From a distance of several thousand miles, we will not witness the immense loss of life that will result; initial estimates indicate that an invasion of Kuwait will cause hundreds of thousands of deaths, even without the use of poison gas. We will not suffer the consequences of a regional escalation of the conflict; if Israel is drawn into the fray, the entire Middle East could soon be at war, perhaps nuclear war, and deaths could run to the millions...
...undo Saddam Hussein's human rights atrocities? Military confrontation over Kuwait will only increase the toll of suffering on the devastated Kuwaiti people...