Word: daniels
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Lacking a universal code, many people have tried to substitute specific rules. Says Ethicist Daniel Callahan, co-founder and director of the Hastings Center think tank near New York City: "When most people talk about morals, they are concerned with laws and regulations and codes." When laws do not exist to regulate a particular situation, "we assume it is pretty much every person for himself...
...offense; a prominent political science professor wrote at the time, "The moral fiber of America itself stands revealed." Just as the Iran-contra hearings began as a road-show Watergate, it is easy to find other 20th century parallels to today's eviscerated ethics. As New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan puts it, "If you want to read about Tammy Bakker, read Sinclair Lewis. If you want to read about insider trading, read Ida Tarbell...
That was the conclusion reported last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association by a team led by Gynecologist Daniel Cramer of Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital. After studying past contraceptive use by 283 childless women with tubal infertility and 3,833 new mothers, the researchers found that women who had used barrier contraceptives had 40% less risk of tubal infertility. The explanation, suggests one of the report's authors, Harvard Epidemiologist Marlene Goldman, is that these contraceptives prevent any germs carried in the semen from reaching the upper genital tract and causing pelvic inflammatory disease...
Promotion Director: Daniel B. Brewster...
...feel we may reluctantly have to go that route," the Rev. Daniel Lewis, pastoral assistant to the New England Province of the Society of Jesus, said Wednesday. "We do want to preserve the church but in a way that is useful...