Word: legality
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Japanese version of the television hit "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," which will have a cash money limit at the legal maximum of $90,000, will hit the airwaves...
...Wise is serious about the work and, the more you think about it, reasonable. "Rattling the Cage" is by turns eloquent, funny and pedantically legalistic, dense with the sometimes bizarre case law of humans and animals. Wise explores the legal basis for granting certain common law protections and rights (not all, of course) to certain nonhuman animals -- only a few, really, notably the remarkably intelligent, accomplished and endangered chimpanzees...
...paradigm shift in people's understanding of the place of humans and animals in nature. If it is proved that a certain nonhuman animal has a conscious mind, with faculties of self-awareness, language, memory, emotional bonds and social skills, is not the animal entitled at least to legal protection against imprisonment, torture, vivisection and other horrors regularly visited on creatures that, legally speaking, have only the status of things...
...humans should exercise a seemly self-effacement -- considering, among other things, that "our DNA and that of chimpanzees is more than 98.3 percent identical." The world is populated by thousands of species, ranging from humans to insects. "I don't argue that the great majority of animals should have legal rights," Wise says -- only those entitled to them by reason of mental powers and self-awareness. It seems to be all right to boil lobsters, by the way, since they have no brain cortex or its equivalent. Wise's argument seems to denigrate the divinity of mankind, and perhaps...
Clad in black, he wore to breakfast a gold pin, emblazoned with the fraction "3/4." That represented the three fourths of black men who had never faced legal trouble, he said...