The study provides the first evidence in animals for a physiological basis of the need for sleep, says the study's leader, Tarja Porkka - Heiskanen, a visiting neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School. (sciencemag.org)
Within the family, the manners that are needed (although not always in evidence) are those associated with responsibility and compassion, rather than individuality and strict justice: care of the helpless, respect for elders and for authority, allotment of resources on the basis of need, empathy with the feelings of others, the accommodation of differences. (firstthings.com)
In earlier times it was the wealthy who contributed to the well - being of society as a civic virtue, giving to an undifferentiated cultural system, making no social distinctions on the basis of need, thus keeping the poor invisible. (religion-online.org)