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There is no need to take a stance on whether Michael Schiavo, Terri’s husband, should have chosen to remove the feeding tube that has sustained his 41-year-old wife since she suffered devastating brain damage in 1990 to understand this point. Nor must one even agree with Florida’s (and every other state’s) law that leaves it up to the spouse to make the life-or-death decision for a permanently incapacitated partner who has not left a living will specifying a course of action. The salient point is that states...
...completely obvious in my mind what we are trying to do,” he said. “It’s like asking James Joyce about Finnegan’s Wake as he’s looking out the window. It’s logical in his brain and it’s the same with...
Michael Schiavo has long insisted that what he wants for his wife Terri is a dignified death. But a flurry of legislative maneuvering late last week showed how the predicament of one severely brain-damaged Florida woman--who has been in what doctors call a persistent vegetative state since 1990--is in danger of getting lost in the clash of political agendas. In an effort to head off the scheduled removal of Schiavo's feeding tube, the House of Representatives, led by Republican Tom DeLay, took the extraordinary step on Friday of issuing a subpoena for Schiavo herself, along with...
Finding a job in the investment world was always going to be easy for Navroz Udwadia, a second-year student at Harvard Business School and a former Rhodes scholar at Oxford. But what made him stand out was not just his brain?it was that he'd grown up in Bombay and had a passion for Indian equities. "Every hedge fund I interviewed with was fascinated by my Indian background," says Udwadia. Four of them offered him jobs. One didn't even wait for him to graduate?the fund's managers gave him $5 million to invest in Indian stocks...
...While reading your report on happiness, I felt a touch of sorrow that science seems to be nosing its way into every aspect of humanity. Can't we go back to the days when people lived passionately without wondering what chemicals in the brain made them happy? Since when has happiness been a technical thing? Janet Ma Rochester, Michigan...