On the morning of April 11 , 1987 this healthily humane man, age sixty-seven, walked out of his fourth-floor apartment and either fell or threw himself over the bannister of the building's staircase.
We need to stop talking in ageist terms and actually consider the value to our economy and culture of a positive, practical, realistic and humane attitude towards ageing.
Owen first attracted attention by operating textile mills in New Lanark, Scot., that were both highly profitable and, by the standards of the day, remarkably humane: no children under age 10 were employed.
I would like to think that our society would exercise imagination and compassion, that our insurance companies would not be allowed to cancel us if we failed the Alzheimer's test, that our government would set a humane example in this age of declining Medicare payments.
Age at humane endpoint was significantly different (P<0.001) on the different genetic backgrounds.
Back in the "newspaper age," some humane organizations warned that newspapers are as likely to attract people who want to use pets for unethical purposes, as they are to reach responsible pet-owners.
Case in point: We're still gathering evidence of a great emotional shift in the work of Neil LaBute, whose "Reasons to Be Pretty," nominated for the Tony Award for best play in 2009, has at last arrived at the Geffen Playhouse, where it proves to be a humane, tenderhearted coming-of-age story. .
This unusual combination of talents may not qualify him absolutely to offer a humane view of the computer age, or what he refers to as the age of Turing's man, after Alan M. Turing, the English mathematician and logician who offered early theoretical descriptions of both the computer and advanced artificial intelligence.
Through the magazine Stickley expressed the importance of humane design in the industrial age.
