Word: auto
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...their parts. Until now we have upheld the principle that one must not pay for human organs because doing so turns the human body--and human life--into a commodity. Violating this principle, it is said, puts us on the slippery slope to establishing a market for body parts. Auto parts, yes. Body parts, no. Start by paying people for their dead parents' kidneys, and soon we will be paying people for the spare kidneys of the living...
...only occasionally wanders in to see what they're up to. "I'd rather have them and their friends playing video games here than be out roaming the streets," he says. Although Peter has spent hours playing Quake, he recently told his dad that he especially enjoyed Grand Theft Auto, a particularly violent video game in which the player gets points by stealing cars and killing police officers. Unaware his son had this game, Tom asked him why he bought it, considering his older half brother is a policeman. "Because it's fun," said Peter. "I know cops aren...
...mountain lake, he could also be uneasily satirized as a plumber's grease trap by the New York Dadaist Morton Schamberg; if sublimity was in the mountains, it was also in the skyscrapers of New York City and in the relentlessly massed geometric forms of the Ford auto plant at River Rouge, Mich., which Charles Sheeler, who painted and photographed them in 1927, saw as "our substitute for religious expression...
...program that helps alleviate the sense of isolation is Winter Study, a January term that provides a change of pace between fall and spring semesters. Students choose one course from a broad array of offerings, including EMT training, auto mechanics and journalism. Extra time is often spent enjoying winter sports like ice climbing, skiing and sledding on dining hall trays. Upperclassmen can choose to plan off-campus independent courses; internships and research projects are popular...
...time Senate legislative director, Carol Browner, as boss of the Environmental Protection Agency, where she has been a tenacious pollution fighter. The next proof of that will be tough new EPA proposals, expected by the end of the month, for regulations mandating cleaner gasoline and lower limits on auto pollution, particularly from sport utility vehicles. The Administration has pushed through Congress important legislation, such as the California Desert Protection Act, which covers more public land than any other conservation law affecting the Lower 48 states. Clinton and Gore largely beat back--with some exceptions--an assault on environmental laws...