Word: demanding
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That is a judgment of supply and demand. Emotionally, the transplant touched more ambiguous chords. "My ethical meter says this is O.K. and should be done. My gut-feeling meter says, 'Wow, this is very troubling.' It's in the Ripley's 'Believe It or Not' category," says Arthur Caplan, who directs the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. "The heart is the most symbolic of organs. Had they moved a lung or a pancreas, it just wouldn't have the same emotional impact." But a child's heart? Surely no parent could bear such a burden. Unless...
...Jesus was a hippie, man. But for the most part community leaders would like to get everyone back indoors, particularly when it's nasty outside. Of course the ( sorehead view is widespread too. As Jackson Hole builder Jacques Sarthou sees it, "You don't go into Beverly Hills and demand cheap housing just because you want to live there. If you cannot afford it, tough luck." But Beverly Hills is spang in the middle of one of America's largest urban bowls, Mr. Sarthou. It doesn't have to share with the majestic Grand Tetons, which don't leave...
...intention of letting the cable companies win this war. No longer able to stay at home and reap monopoly revenues that average $12 billion apiece, the once somnolent siblings are turning on one another, bashing other rivals and forming partnerships to provide home screens with everything from movies-on-demand to video shopping malls...
...part why phone companies like Pacific Bell, which has already laid 350,000 miles of fiber-optic cable, are eagerly waiting to purchase a new generation of fast video "servers" that squeeze movies and other programming down to the right size and deliver them to customers virtually on demand. Hewlett-Packard and other manufacturers are scrambling to roll out such servers by next year at prices of up to $20 million...
...loudest demand is for notification laws that alert citizens when a sex offender is about to be released into their community. At present, 38 states require that local police be notified when a release is imminent. Last week New Jersey legislators scrambled to answer citizens' demands for a law that would require authorities to notify community members as well. The outcry for the so-called Megan's Law follows the July 29 rape and murder of seven-year- old Megan Kanka. Paroled child molester Jesse Timmendequas, who has been charged with the crime, had been living across the street...