Word: busalacchi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ripples can be thousands of miles long, but since they travel 100 ft. or more beneath the surface they're hard to detect directly. So scientists use satellites to pick up the subtle undulations in sea level produced as the ripples pass by. That's how NASA oceanographer Anthony Busalacchi could see early last spring that swarms of undersea waves had started to head out across the Pacific toward the coast of Peru; he followed them as they slammed into the continental shelf, then split, heading sharply south toward Chile and north toward Alaska...
...Cruzan case seems to have opened a Pandora's box of right-to-die and right-to-life cases, all putting painful ethical dilemmas before the courts. Three days after Cruzan's death, the state-run Missouri Rehabilitation Center blocked the attempt of St. Louis marketing consultant Pete Busalacchi to move his daughter Christine from Missouri, which severely restricts the disconnecting of feeding tubes from patients judged beyond recovery, to Minnesota, where rules are less strict. In June the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed Missouri's right to require "clear and convincing evidence" of a patient's desire to avoid life...
...correspondingly difficult to settle, as the court found after its landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion. There are 10,000 other patients like Cruzan in the U.S., and their families are waiting and watching. "I'm riding on the Cruzans' coattails," says St. Louis marketing consultant Pete Busalacchi, whose daughter Christine lies in the same Missouri rehabilitation center as Cruzan. "Maybe it would have been best if she had died that night," he says, referring to Christine's 1987 auto accident. "This has been a 34-month funeral." And like many Americans, Pete Busalacchi believes a family...
...moment, most Americans seem to agree with Busalacchi. In a poll conducted last month for TIME/CNN by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, 80% of those $ surveyed said decisions about ending the lives of terminally ill patients who cannot decide for themselves should be made by their families and doctors rather than lawmakers. If a patient is terminally ill and unconscious but has left instructions in a living will, 81% believe the doctor should be allowed to withdraw life-sustaining treatment; 57% believe it is all right for doctors in such cases to go even further and administer lethal injections or provide lethal...
Afanador began his project believing that people who are comatose remained completely motionless. "But while I was doing the picture that is now on the cover," he says, "Christine Busalacchi opened her eyes and seemed to smile at me. It had a dramatic effect on me, but it didn't change my attitude about allowing these patients...