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...ADVANCE DIRECTIVES Also known as living wills, they are the best way to ensure you'll receive the care you want if you become incapacitated. There are two types: a document detailing specific wishes (e.g., Do you want to be sustained on a respirator?), and one that names a health-care proxy to speak for you when you can't. Experts--who stress that the real point of ADs is to spur conversation with family and doctors--recommend using both. Choose a proxy (probably not your spouse) who is likely to be thorough and levelheaded in carrying out your wishes...
Which isn't to blame doctors alone. Americans as a whole have a hard time discussing dying--even those who have planned for it. According to the TIME/CNN poll, 55% of those over 65 now have an "advance directive," a legal document that lays out what sort of care they want before death. This number has never been higher. But only 6% of those worked with a doctor to write the document; other polls have shown that very few people even tell their doctors they have advance directives. In addition, a study found that although many Americans legally designate someone...
...saga began in 1995, when a walk-in source gave the CIA a document from the People's Republic of China that claimed Chinese weapons designers had obtained specific and highly classified details of an American nuclear warhead known as the W-88. Not everyone in the intelligence community was convinced the document was genuine. The DOE and the FBI, which handles spy catching, quickly learned that several agencies and some defense contractors had information about the W-88, and concluded that the leak had probably occurred at the weapons lab at Los Alamos, where most of the data were...
...deputy sheriffs, HUPD officers are "regarded in the law as peace officers with special rights of arrest in certain circumstances," as it is described in an orientation document given to all new deputies in Middlesex County...
...million to a man who demonstrated that the tread of his Dunlop tire had collapsed in part because the company did not design a nylon cap into the tire. He is now a quadriplegic; the case is on appeal. According to plaintiffs' lawyers and experts, the STL studies document on video what happens to major-brand-name radials as their inflation is reduced: none of the tires suffer fatal tread separation if they have nylon caps. Last week Ford urged Firestone to recall its Wilderness AT tires in Venezuela because they lacked the caps...