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...want their organs to be made available. Many European and Asian countries take the opposite approach; in Singapore, for example, all residents receive a letter when they come of age informing them that their organs may be harvested unless they explicitly object. In Belgium, which adopted a similar presumed-consent system 12 years ago, less than 2% of the population has decided...
...DeWolfe feel isolated from their House communities, both physically and socially. Kirkland House residents have to walk past the dining halls of four other Houses if they wish to return “home” for a meal. Sophomores—often placed in DeWolfe without their consent because they can be crowded four to a suite—miss out on the integration into a residential community that is supposed to accompany the transition from the Yard...
...pregnancy severely restricted. Through laws that ban abortion in most military facilities, military and federally employed women (and wives and daughters of men in the military or federal work force) have limited access if any to abortion. Young women cannot receive help from anyone without parental consent through the passage of the Child Custody Protection Act. This act makes it illegal to assist a teenager to get an abortion without parental consent. Through this law, adult friends, counselors, ministers and even grandmothers who help a teen in this way may end up in federal prison...
...believes the settlement would actually free manufacturers with competing technologies is living in fantasy land," says Ken Wasch, president of the Software and Information Industry Association, an industrywide lobbying group Microsoft once belonged to. His problem is that Gates has a long history of splitting legal hairs. A 1995 consent decree bound him not to bundle free software with Windows. In 1997 Netscape complained that Microsoft was doing just that with Internet Explorer. Microsoft countered--successfully--that it wasn't a bundle: Explorer was a part of Windows itself. That one provision cost the two sides years of courtroom wrangling...
...somewhat backwards system that deprives us of a fundamental language capability, which is the spoken word. After several failed attempts to hold the Latin Table in dining halls, Whittington petitioned the Classics Department to help fund her labor of love at a more appropriate venueBertuccis. With the departments consent, the Latin Table has become a Thursday at 6 p.m. fixture at the Italian restaurantso much so that many of the staff recognize the Latin aficionados...