Word: allowable
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...America, she is completely financially strapped by caring for a disabled child. And insurance doesn't cover it. And she winds up figuring out, with the help of an attorney, that if she sues her obstetrician for wrongful birth, she might end up with a payout that will allow her to take care of Willow for the rest of her life in comfort. The catch is that she has to stand up in court and say, "If I had known that Willow was going to have this disease, I would have terminated the pregnancy." And that's a very real...
Early parenting choices are never clear-cut, and deciding whether to allow your infant to watch television or DVDs ranks as one of the more perplexing...
...Consulate in Cambridge has expanded a one-year-old partnership with the Harvard Kennedy School that will allow students to potentially guide international policy...
...puck for the rest of the second period—Harvard outshot the Big Red, 14-5, in the frame—but the team had to wait until the third to score again.Two and a half minutes into the final period, Harvard doubled its lead to allow it some breathing room.Vaillancourt took on the role of playmaker again, stealing the puck and rushing down the ice to create a 2-on-1 break with sophomore Katharine Chute. Holding the puck until Chute was in the perfect location, Vaillancourt threaded a pass right onto her linemate’s stick...
Medical advances may also play into legal arguments. Wolpe says progress has allowed the terminally ill to live longer, but it has transformed dying from something that occurs relatively quickly and painlessly to something more drawn out and potentially agonizing. "So," he says, "some people have decided that if we are going to intervene in the natural act of dying and allow people to live even though disease is rampant in their body, we can't make someone's decision to die the one exception to our meddling." And if assisted suicide remains illegal, Satz says it could force more...