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...terminally ill patients at their request is actually a move which respects sanctity of life. For them death with dignity, as opposed to a life of pain and suffering, is more humane. However, such contentions seem to be concerned more with the quality of life than its sanctity. In effect their case is that if we need to decide between the two, quality of life is more important than the sanctity of life. Thus the extremely low quality of life of a terminally ill patient out-weights the very sanctity of that life and justifies his or her "mercy" killing...
...food stamps, subsidized school lunches--that by law are tied to the CPI. Perhaps 3 million workers have union contracts linking future wage increases partly to the index. Taxpayers' personal exemptions, standard deductions and tax-rate brackets are adjusted each year in tandem with the CPI, and the cumulative effect of changing those adjustments could be huge. The extra $37 paid by a median family the first year would grow to $1,755 over 10 years...
When technology cuts the cost of spreading the word, strange things happen. Potentates grow insecure and marginal dissenters feel their oats. Monoliths splinter and the splinter groups splinter again. (There are now hundreds of Protestant denominations.) The effect is hardly confined to religions; the era of computerized mass mail and desktop publishing has seen the number of political-interest groups grow by an order of magnitude. But religions, with their aspirations of human brotherhood, uniquely highlight the paradox: communication is supposed to be a social cement, yet new communication technologies are often fragmenting...
According to legal experts, however, the right of gay couples to marry in Hawaii won't have a broad impact on the mainland for some time to come. The state supreme court's decision has no binding effect as a precedent in other states, though gays elsewhere could invoke the persuasiveness of its reasoning. Other states remain free to set gender-based restrictions on marriage because the U.S. Supreme Court has never decided whether the Federal Constitution bans such restrictions. (The high courts of several states have ruled that it does...
...draw, for instance, on German Gothic woodcarvings, in which the task of scooping space from a thin panel causes the figures to stand stiffly as though in fright. Equally, his work was influenced by Matisse, whose daring, expressive color and use of black translate, in Beckmann, into a stylistic effect similar to stained glass, with burning patches of green or flesh color emphasized by a webwork of heavy black outlines...