But the film operates just as powerfully on a human scale, or, in the case of the madly malign Gollum, an inhuman one.

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It also takes viewers beyond the platitudes that often dominate discourse on controversial issues, and allows them to examine the implications of a particular topic on a human scale.

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The Bauhaus with which I am more familiar is about embracing humanistic traits, and exercising them on a human scale so as to capture the 'spirit' that was being lost in the mechanization of processes.

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Compassion often works best on a small and human scale.

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On the contrary, they make human life better off on a scale that is unprecedented in history.

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For years, even to entertain the possibility of human intervention on such a scale geoengineering, as the practice is known has been denounced as hubris.

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Although he shows enthusiasm for the battery project, Gambarota, who now spends much of his time developing micro wind turbines, is sceptical about the future of human-power on a mass-scale.

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By making it possible to track customers in the physical world as easily as we do on the Web, indoor positioning is poised to bring the power of web analytics into the physical world, giving us real-time insights into human behavior and habits on a massive scale.

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Think of this as that same, generous, human response only on a much smaller, less critical scale.

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It often insists that foods already on supermarket shelves be treated like drugs and run through a gauntlet of preliminary studies before large-scale human studies can begin.

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