We won't break out the champagne and party streamers, then, but the dispute underscores just how close we are to having another human-made object roaming the galaxy.
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These include increasing social disparities and inequity, population growth, climate change, the deterioration and pollution of the environment, the unsustainable use of freshwater and depletion of ocean resources, as well as increasing cases of natural and human-made disasters.
That, and improving efficiency really made human powered-flight move from sustained hops and skips to the international crossings of the Albatross.
The birth of the first child who began life as an embryo outside the human body made headlines world-wide and ultimately spawned hundreds of commercial IVF clinics.
AstraZeneca, a large British drug company, announced a collaborative project with Orchid BioSciences, an American firm, that will use the information on the human genome to produce tailor-made drugs .
The birth of the first human child who began life as an embryo outside the human body made headlines world-wide and, within a few years, spawned hundreds of commercial IVF clinics.
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Afterward, a female employee filed a complaint with the company's human-resources department about alleged comments made by Mr. Flanders.
From the brute steroids the East Germans reportedly used on their Olympians during the Cold War to today's man-made versions of natural human proteins, drugs have been as much a staple of the Games as gold, silver and bronze.
For example, the literacy levels of people aged 52-60 when tested in 1995 are used to estimate the competencies of 17-25-year-olds in 1960, and hence the human-capital investment that had just been made in the course of that cohort's education.
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"The farmers are inundated with slick, high-tech messages, so we made a warm, human message with a handmade feel to cut through all the high- tech chitter-chatter, " says Willett.
While its revelatory inspiration is divine, Islamic law is man-made and thus subject to human interpretation and revision.
Enlarging the scope of the UNESCO Prize for Human Rights Education (1978-2006), the Prize rewards the outstanding contributions made by organizations and individuals to the cause of human rights by means of education and research.
But a special review commission, made up of local politicians and human-rights workers, generally pronounced the civil unions a success in January.
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With each human being made up of trillions upon trillions of atoms -- 10 to the power of 28 to be precise -- the technology to perform a sufficiently accurate scan to produce even the most basic approximation of a living person does not exist, and probably never will.
The early DNA sequencers that were used in the Human Genome Project started out at Perkin-Elmer before a restructuring made the technology part of a separate company.
Most were tailor-made, engineered to carry specific genetic mutations to mimic human diseases and conditions like autism.
"His legacy lives on, he is a fantastic human being, " Ferguson said of one-club man Giggs, who made his debut against Everton on March 2, 1991.
Making a mistake was perhaps a good thing as it made me feel more human and a good representative of young people - we know we don't always get it right!
"Operating without any clear precedent for the conflicting privacy concerns and knowing that no human had looked at any e-mails during or after the investigation, we made a decision that protected the privacy of the resident dean who had made an inadvertent error and allowed the student cases being handled by this resident dean to move forward expeditiously, " Smith and Hammonds said.
The young Marines stationed here made a long human chain and spent more than an hour in 120-degree heat offloading bottles of water from the trucks.
Religion comes from the period of human pre-history where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms - had the smallest idea what was going on.
A. wrongly accused of being a double agent and held for three years in total isolation (no reading material, no news, no human contact except with interrogators) in a closet-size concrete cell near Williamsburg, Virginia, made chess sets from threads and a calendar from lint (only to have them discovered and swept away).
In cities and towns across America where jobs are being lost at a dramatic rate, revival of local and regional economies will require strategic investments in human capital made possible by highly trained and motivated teachers and a curriculum that provides students with 21st -century skills.
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In accordance with the Charter of the United Nations and the principles of humanitarian law, the World Conference on Human Rights further emphasizes the importance of and the need for humanitarian assistance to victims of all natural and man-made disasters.
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