And so, in much the way that an activist American lawyer tries to squeeze a civil rights or labor precedent from the Supreme Court, Mental Disability Rights is trying to squeeze human rights precedents from existing international law.
Moreover, in an age concerned with the efficient use of energy, technological improvements are squeezing human fecal matter to release every last drop of the stuff.
But to suggest that these fabulous dogs would benefit from having fewer people enjoy their incredible lives is another attempt to try to squeeze all human enjoyment out of our limited days.
On one view, the rise of natural philosophy over the last several millennia has slowly stripped man of his God-given dominion over creation and squeezed the human species into a tiny corner of the cosmos that, through accidents of physics, chemistry and evolution, happens to be our home.
But this day, more tired than usual after a grinding 2 a.m. night at work, I took advantage of a vacancy and squeezed between two humans.
For NASA, as it attempts to squeeze a workable human spaceflight program into a tight federal budget, the answers appear to be "somewhere" and "not anytime soon".
The House Science and Technology Committee, in its effort to squeeze NASA's human spaceflight program into the budget box, deleted almost all the money from commercial crew and large-scale technology demonstration projects and applied it to slimmed-down Constellation rockets.
I noticed them when I was confirming a rumor that there's just enough room in a gap between the loading-dock wall and the merchandise trucks for a small human to squeeze through to freedom.
Yet the land must have been dry and big game scarce, and these humans were squeezed through what is called a "bottleneck event," a winnowing of population down to a few thousand individuals, scattered in isolated pockets around the continent.
