One can't help noticing that when Mr Obama mocks himself, he mocks himself for being super-human.
Connections are a fundamental condition of being human--from our neural and immune systems to families and friendships.
Lawyers representing Nigerians who accuse Royal Dutch Shell of being aiding human-rights abuses in their home country have filed a petition for Supreme Court review.
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In a video message to the High-level session, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon called upon the scientific community to help make sense of the complex and interconnected challenges --including climate change, the financial crisis and food, water and energy insecurity -- that threaten human well-being and civilization as we know it.
In his video message during the high-level segment, the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon called upon the scientific community to help make sense of the complex and interconnected challenges --including climate change, the financial crisis and food, water and energy insecurity -- that threaten human well-being and civilization as we know it.
It provides a human-like experience of being known by some other, but it is only a human-ish experience of such empathy.
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To the contrary, the results indicate that happiness and income are connected by a two-way relationship, and that human well-being can itself be a source of economic dynamism.
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"We wish for everybody, for every human being -- Christian, Muslim and Jew, to be happy together, " said one Bethlehem resident.
The similarity between the genetic make-up of the fruit fly and that of human being is well-known, and scientists are hoping that this breakthrough could eventually lead to understanding of addiction to narcotics.
"New thinking and practical approaches are needed to address the threats that climate-related migration poses to human security and well-being, " Warner said.
The lauded BBC AMERICA co-production, Being Human premieres in HD on Saturday July 25 at 9:00 p.m.
Instead of expressing shock and demonizing night workers for being human, day-working managers should recognize them as unsung heroes.
But more than any other actor, even Henry Fonda's folksy "Young Mr. Lincoln" (1939), Day-Lewis' version seems like a likable, three-dimensional human being.
Something wonderful was just over the horizon and every card-carrying human being had to have an informed opinion on all those things that distinguish human beings from animals.
The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, will open the international forum (Room II, 10 a.m.), which will focus on three themes: emancipation from oppression (10.30-11.15), the human being and nature (11.30-12.15) and the educational challenge (12.30-1.15 p.m.).
Charles Bukowski, who died in 1994, shares with Mr Simic a quality which is highly characteristic of American verse from Walt Whitman on a casualness of address, some feeling that the person speaking to us is the not-so-perfect human being next door.
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Corporate greed plus out-and-out fraud is another, especially when human lives and financial well-being hang in the balance.
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Of itself, a wasp can be little more than an annoyance to a (non-allergic) human being.
The band took its name from the concept of de-evolution, human being and society devolving, not progressing.
Keynes chose Freud, mostly, and saw economies as essentially being driven by unconscious, pre-human impulses (animal spirits).
Rather, it is about how biological and social scientists should contribute to the improvement of human well-being.
Outstanding contribution to the application of Science and Technology to industry or to human well-being in a developing country.
Their loss and degradation directly intensifies water supply issues and compromises human well-being.
S. Mill, the right action is roughly speaking whatever most promotes human well-being.
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And, although we usually think of a mummy as a human being, animals -- and even plants -- can be mummified.
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Failing to make these changes "will put us on track to alternative futures with severe and potentially catastrophic implications for human well-being".
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Biodiversity from terrestrial, marine, coastal, and inland water ecosystems provides the basis for ecosystems and the services they provide that underpin human well-being.
For instance, the centre links to an e-poem called "being human" by Annie Abrahams, the word "bonjour" edges across the screen showing the rest of the poem.
Human well-being and survival are hardly conceivable without flourishing biodiversity.
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