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...PARTICULARLY DIABOLICAL textbook problem for budding ethicists has been transposed to grim reality in upstate New York. In 1985 a highway accident smashed the promise of a 19-year-old Cornell University freshman, putting her into a coma-like state. Then in August someone at the Westfall Health Care Center in Brighton, N.Y., raped the helpless woman, a fact deduced last month when the woman, now 29, was found to be five months pregnant...
...Women in comas have given birth before, usually to children conceived before the women were stricken. And by tradition, barring a living will, doctors honor a family's perception of a coma victim's wishes. The New York woman had been a devout Roman Catholic. Says Ellen Moskowitz, a lawyer and ethicist at the Hastings Center, "It seems reasonable to conclude this is the kind of decision she would have wanted...
...campaigns, that does not care deeply about the issues involved in campaigns and that does not even bother to vote. The voice of America's youth can and must be heard --but it is going to take a shot in the arm to awaken younger voters from their apathetic coma. This year's election just may be that shot...
...membership for some club members, few of the clubs are truly elitist any more. Exclusivity is not the same thing as elitism unless there is some accepted standard of superiority that constitutes membership. When a group of hockey players lock themselves in a room drinking themselves into a coma becomes your idea of haute couture, then you've truly spent too much time watching "Ricki Lake...
...emergency-room pace seems to have governed all Crichton's working life. "Whatever the word is that's the opposite of lazy," says Gottlieb, "is what Michael is." He has written 24 books and directed seven movies--including Westworld, Coma and (based on his own novel) The Great Train Robbery. He mastered computers in their nascent stage and wrote one of the first texts on information technology (Electronic Life, in 1983). He ran a software company. He designed a computer game. He wrote essays for Wired, the hot computer magazine, even before it was hot. He collects modern...