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...deal: register, consent to a constant barrage of ads at the bottom of your PC's screen, and earn about a penny for every minute online. Get all your friends to sign up too and make more money. They spread the word, and you make even more. And so it goes, rippling out on a virtually infinite scale ? a multilevel marketing arrangement without the garage full of vitamins or the recruiting sessions disguised as dinner parties. MORE...
Good thing for China that it doesn't depend on the consent of the Tibetans to rule Tibet. A 14-year-old boy recognized as the 17th Karmapa - a senior figure in Tibetan Buddhism - has fled to Dharmsala, the Dalai Lama's headquarters in India. It was reported Friday that the boy fled after the Chinese authorities, who had used their official relationship with the Karmapa as evidence of their tolerance of Tibetan Buddhism, broke promises to allow the boy access to his spiritual teacher in India. Beijing had officially recognized the boy, chosen by monks at the Karma Kagyu...
...moments from clinical death. It's then that new doctors, who often find themselves under pressure to quickly deliver fluids or medication to critically ill patients, practice threading a tube into the patient's femoral vein. This training maneuver is generally performed without a patient's or family's consent or knowledge, and its proponents argue that performing the same technique on a cadaver doesn't give doctors the same real-life exposure. Of course, as the procedure's detractors point out, cadavers also don't offer the ethical dilemmas posed by experimenting on live subjects...
...placed chair. The Fogg Museum, aware of the damage, made numerous attempts to bring about the murals' removal and preservation. But to no avail, as the murals belonged to the Corporation, which itself was held under the Deed of Gift not to move the murals without the artist's consent. Th final difficulty was Rothko's death in 1970, which lead to a legal entanglement over his estate that would delay the murals' removal for nine more years...
...true that research scientists don't always have the best bedside manner, and sometimes they unnecessarily keep patients in the dark. And the consent forms are often so encrusted with medical jargon that some patients joke they would rather take their chances with cancer than fill them...