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...most basic of all: Are heart transplants morally justified? Since all the principals at the symposium had performed transplants, they had answered this question long ago in their own minds. But there remained some sticking points in medical ethics. How to determine the death of the donor? On three criteria there was general agreement: The patient must no longer have any natural heartbeat, or respiration, or reflexes. Beyond that, he must have a "flat" electroencephalogram-no "brain wave" activity-but for how long? After the closed sessions in Cape Town, all that Spokesman Cooley could say was: "We have reached...
...good conscience, pass over the man who is most severely ill and doomed soon to die, in favor of a younger man with more vitality, whose need is less urgent but who has a better chance of survival? On this score, said Cooley, "We did not establish definite criteria...
...cynicism," recalls an Elysée official. Talking with Couve and observing him in action, De Gaulle became convinced that Couve was, of all his ministers, by far the best interpreter of his policies. Furthermore, Couve's personality-his reticence, precision, haughtiness-met De Gaulle's criteria of the attributes of a man of quality. The story goes that on a visit to Paris as Soviet Premier, Nikita Khrushchev boasted about his Foreign Minister, saying, "I can order Gromyko to sit on a chunk of ice and he stays there until the ice has melted." Replied De Gaulle...
...usual dreary effort to show that the program was meant to stress brains over bustlines, film clips showed "panels of experts" testing the girls in some of the eleven criteria of the "complete, modern, intelligent young lady." These include such crucial skills as cake decorating, highway-safety practices and color coordination...
...decent editor might have been able to hack free some interesting thoughts from yards of Year-bok-style verbiage. ("The situation I have seen that probably best exemplifies this conflict of criteria is the plight of the high school super-athlete at Harvard," writes the jock.) On the other hand, nothing good could come from the idiotic little statistical "analysis" of the senior class taken from the blurbs accompanying seniors' pictures...