Word: humanizing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...terrible to think that nobody ever asked John von Neuman--the real pioneer of computers who invented the stored program concept--'Were you interested in extending the capacity of the human brain, or just in inventing a great machine?' As a historian, I'm very interested in these questions," Cohen said...
...silliest (ah, but oh so wonderful) endings in screen history. The awkward moments, the stutters and stumbles, the slow buildup of courage, all add to the movie. Rarely does a director find a more willing audience. There probably isn't a more universal human desire than to live life constantly on the precipice of a love affair...
...government investigation began in 1978 with compliance review conducted by HEW--now the Department of Health and Human Services--prior to the renewal of a $1 million contract with the Naval Biosciences Dept. at the university's Berkeley campus. Suspicious of possible affirmative action violations in other departments, the investigators requested records from six faculty hiring and promotion committees. All of the committees refused to comply, citing reasons of confidentiality and academic freedom...
Jaffee and three other Harvard law students gained the attention of the AAPL by writing a legal brief which showed that Zissels' imprisonment was not only a violation of human rights, but also Soviet...
Normally, such experiments involving Harvard students are investigated by the Standing Committee on the Use of Human Subjects. However, because the study is not funded through the University, the Committee relies on the judgement of the 21-person Institutional Review Board at McLean Hospital to assure that the study poses no unnecessary risks to the subjects, and that the anticipated benefits of the study outweigh the possible side effects...