As the title suggests, the themes of this work of fiction are the old ones: the vanity of human striving, divine punishment for overweening confidence in our technological achievement, the futility of human effort in a world ruled by indifferent nature.
"Stephane Hessel was a towering figure in the human rights world, " U.N.
Pressure had mounted on the DoJ from smaller providers, particularly Sprint which would stand as a human in a world of giants if the deal went through.
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Despite only the northern tip of the reserve being open to tourism, safari bus congestion is low enough to make you sometimes feel as if you are the only human in a world dominated by mega fauna.
Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people.
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This historical adventure novel captures the sweep of human nature in a world that we'll never see again.
It will be next to impossible if Mr Kasparov, the best human player in the world, sweeps his pieces off the board and refuses to play.
Because we believe in human dignity, the world must have more effective means to stabilize regions in turmoil and to halt religious violence and ethnic cleansing.
"The Miss Universe competition is designed to find the one person in the world whose human qualities make them worthy of the Miss Universe crown and title, " Allred said.
Deceptively simple but perfect for this time of year is Adin Steinsaltz's Simple Words , a series of short essays about what it means to be human in a material world.
Following in the footsteps of Robert Peugeot, British industrialist Henry Kremer figured the best way to inspire innovation in the world of human-powered aircraft, was to appeal to the pockets of engineers.
After working in the Human Resources consulting world for a number of years, I was incredibly familiar with the value that personality, cognitive and behavioral inventories add to the selection process, when used appropriately.
The Chief Medical Officer, Prof Sally Davies, said the levels would be so low as not to represent a health risk, although she is deeply worried about the long-term threat of antibiotic resistance in the human and animal world.
In string theory, the forces and particles of which the universe is now composed are actually vibrations of tiny strings made from these ten dimensions (six of which are confined to such strings, and thus are not perceivable in the human-scale world).
Britain would become the first country in the world to ban human cloning, according to London's Independent newspaper.
In the real world of human family relations there can be no justification for government to impose this burden by force of law.
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This heritage may exist in any language, in any part of the world, and in any area of human knowledge or expression.
In 30 years, HIV has caused tremendous loss and human suffering in every corner of the inhabited world.
Instead, it lies below Yemen in the UNDP's ranking of human-development indicators, at 151st in the world.
Griffith, 34, has already spawned inventions enough to last a lifetime, including a cheap way to prescribe and create corrective lenses in the developing world and a human-powered energy system.
We are the oldest constitutional democracy in the world but we must never forget in the context of human history just how quickly we have come to where we are today.
According to Ain, the fact that 70% of the Forbes 50 and more than 50% of the Forbes 1, 000 largest companies manage their workforce using Kronos systems and are firmly positioned as the third largest Human Capital Services provider in the world behind Oracle and SAP speaks to the success of how Kronos values drive business growth for the organization.
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The ability of these robot systems to naturally interact, learn from, and effectively cooperate with people has been evaluated in numerous human subjects experiments, both inside the lab and in real-world environments.
Backers of Professor Islam's filter hope that the publicity that it receives at the Arsenic conference in San Diego will help raise funds to end arsenic contamination in Bangladesh, described by the World Health Organization as the largest mass poisoning in human history.
And his input has yielded a great return: using the same talents that made him successful in business, Chuck Feeney has created some of the most amazing universities in the world, and pioneered incredible philanthropic efforts world wide from AIDS Relief in South Africa to Human Rights in Vietnam.
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The essential problem facing the high-tax countries is this: In a competitive world where capital and human talent are increasingly mobile, both will tend to move where aftertax returns are highest.
The aim of the Forum is to open a space for dialogue for civil society, parliamentarians, decisioni-makers, regional organizations, as well as specialized UN agencies, to exchange on issues related to democracy and human rights in Africa and the Arab world.
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For if you're going to accidentally have your product resemble a famous person, somehow, by a strange law of comedy that can't be explained, the absolute worst human being in the history of the world is far more amusing than, say, Tom Hanks.
Reason lets human beings participate in life, to be human is to think, appraise, and explore the world, discovering new sources of material and spiritual pleasure.
And it will allow Europe to contribute in shaping that "better organised world" in line with the values of freedom, democracy, human rights and rule of law that we cherish and believe in.
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