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...many terminally ill patients and their families, it's having the option that counts. When Annemie Douwes Dekker's husband Hink was first told he had multiple sclerosis in 1978, his family doctor agreed to discuss the possibilities of euthanasia if and when the time came. "That was a great help to us," Annemie recalled. Five years later Hink, then 50, had been in a nursing home for a year and was deteriorating rapidly, losing his ability to communicate and control bodily functions. Yet, says his widow, now 62 and living in Haarlem, "he had a strong heart; he could...
...Harvard struck back quickly. Unsung center Kirk Nielsen blasted through Marsh from the right point to even the game at 8:08. And it took only six seconds to capitalize on a holding call against Maine defenseman Jason Dekker; right winger Brian Farrell redirected Derek Maguire's shot for his fourth game-winning goal of the year, this time with 9:33 to play...
Directed by Fred Dekker; produced by Patrick Crowley; Orion Pictures; Rated...
Something had to go, and last week the Philips board, led by Chairman Wisse Dekker, decided that it was Van der Klugt. The 40-year veteran was forced out. Philips, Dekker admitted at a hastily called news conference, was suffering a "crisis of confidence, the worst thing that can happen to a corporation." He then named as Van der Klugt's successor Jan Timmer, 57, chief of the firm's consumer-electronics division...
...Dekker is one of a growing corps of experts urging farmers to adopt a new approach called sustainable agriculture. Once the term was synonymous with the dreaded O word -- a farm-belt euphemism for trendy organic farming that uses no synthetic chemicals. But sustainable agriculture has blossomed into an effort to curb erosion by modifying plowing techniques and to protect water supplies by minimizing, if not eliminating, artificial fertilizers and pest controls. "Sustainable agriculture used to be something you said under your breath," jokes Indiana farmer Jim Moseley, agricultural consultant to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. "Now the definition...