Take the Apollo program: No human has been beyond the orbit of the Earth since the Nixon administration.
The longest any human has stayed in space so far is about 13 months, held by a Russian cosmonaut.
Because right now, the fastest human has solved a Cube in 6.24 seconds, while robots lag behind at 10.18 seconds.
Each human has their own pattern of work methodologies and interests that are innate to that person and if tapped, can be a source of intense work ethic.
And just as some early explorers made the ultimate sacrifice while searching for unknown lands, space pioneers may also pay a steep price for bravely going where no human has gone before.
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H1N1 is a more appropriate label for this flu, because a direct link from pig to human has not been established, according to Professor Marie Gramer's who studies swine disease at the University of Minnesota.
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Sir Ranulph Fiennes is leading a team of five other explorers in a quest to achieve a feat no other human has managed - to walk across Antarctica in the near permanent darkness and super low temperatures of winter.
Human irresponsibility has helped to make water one of the main human problems for this century.
Of course I am labouring the point here to remind us that there has never been a time when mastering the sum of human knowledge has not been felt to be an impossible task.
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But as Iraq has grown less hospitable to al-Qaeda-style jihadists, the human flow has reversed, with many heading back to Lebanon.
But easier movement of capital and goods has helped to make the world a much richer place in the past decade or two, and more human mobility has both created wealth and helped to share it out more equally.
The intensity of the debate about business and human rights has increased in recent years.
For millennia, human society has struggled with what to do with young men's violent tendencies.
No matter how rich and talented and smart you are, human productivity has its limits.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has also said Mr Duvalier should face justice.
The good news is that the human brain has a startling capacity to change.
Driving towards the peninsula's tip, it's clear that human settlement has hardly made a scratch on this barren landscape.
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has declared Mexico's military tribunals illegal four times.
One major hurdle is that the language of machine-plus-human interaction has not yet begun to be developed.
Special Rapporteur on Counter Terrorism and Human Rights has launched an investigation into their effect on civilians.
The European Court of Human Rights has left a milestone on the road to a secular society.
Yasuni is without doubt one of the most important ecological challenges this human generation has ever confronted.
In the last year or so, a third critical human resource has been added to the mix: food.
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The Department of Health and Human Services has a guide to low-cost insurance programs especially for children.
Every human being has the right to be happy, fulfilled and to live a flourishing and meaningful life.
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Until now, the study of the human genome has been the field of esoteric science and outsized egos.
Placing the highest possible value on human life has always been at the very core of our culture.
Their goal: to have a day when no human being has malaria and no mosquito on earth carries it.
LONDON, England -- A ban on human cloning has been pledged by the British government to allay public fears.
It would be an exaggeration to say that the sequencing of the human genome has already made that transition.
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