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...that is, normal sexual intercourse. In the Vatican view, couples must combine the "unitive" (sexual) and the "procreative" aspects of marriage. Artificial methods of producing children consider only procreation, says Rome, while artificial methods of birth control consider only the sexual aspect. Since artificial insemination and in vitro fertilization bypass the normal "conjugal act," neither method is allowed...
...more after-work office trysts with his alluring assistant. Similarly, Henry's famous older brother Nathan, 45, cannot marry an Englishwoman named Maria and create both the child and the settled life that, after three failed marriages, he now desperately wants. The only solution in both cases is bypass surgery. The Zuckerman brothers face the same difficult choice, but for diametrically opposed reasons. Henry, the responsible family man, has to decide whether to put his life on the line for a fling; Nathan, the notorious womanizer and hedonist with money to burn and an immaculate Manhattan apartment, must risk...
...however, Ninoy was released from confinement, and his wife from politics, when Marcos granted the ailing prisoner permission to travel to the U.S. for triple-bypass heart surgery. With a trumped-up death sentence over his head at home, Ninoy settled down after his operation in a red brick house in the affluent Boston suburb of Newton. There he returned to scheming for the overthrow of Marcos, while Cory resumed her favored routine of browsing through department stores, raising bonsai trees and relaxing over Falcon Crest and Dallas. Her American neighbors remember the President of the Philippines especially...
...first sign of a new policy toward the famous dissidents came a year ago. Following a 30-day hunger strike by Sakharov to force Moscow to allow his wife to seek medical treatment abroad, Bonner was permitted to go to the U.S. for a coronary-bypass operation. At the beginning of her six-month visit to the West, Bonner adhered to a pledge she had been obliged to sign in order to obtain her visa: she would hold no press conferences and give no interviews while abroad. Later, however, she was outraged at seeing secretly recorded videotapes of herself...
...measures of hospital performance which more thoroughly reflect the actual processes and results of care. The demand for outcome-based measurement of quality has been spurred on by recent investigations showing some apparently systematic differences among hospitals in the mortality rate of certain operations, such as coronary artery bypass surgery...