Word: fatherness
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...patients' doctor and two nurses with second-degree murder; a grand jury refused to indict them.) Two years prior, in a 2004 article in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Timothy Quill, a professor of medicine at the University of Rochester, described using sedation to help his father die. Cases like these have fueled public unease with the practice...
...High Frontier, which was funded by the Heritage Foundation, a Washington think tank. It reported that technology currently exists to orbit more than 400 "killer satellites" that could knock out Soviet missiles. There were other supporters of the idea, most notably Edward Teller, the hawkish physicist known as "the father of the hydrogen bomb...
...married father, Sperling is teased by his wife that advising Clinton is one of "five full-time jobs" he holds, including his work on education in the developing world. (Angelina Jolie is a partner in one project.) But Sperling still makes it home most nights to put his 23-month-old daughter to bed before logging in a few more hours for the campaign. "Sleep does lose out," he admits. "At 49, I don't handle a four-hour-sleep night as well...
...Preacher and the Pol When Obama joined Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ in 1988, the Afrocentric church and its pastor held particular appeal to a 27-year-old son of an African father he barely knew and a white mother from Kansas. Obama was searching for an identity and a community, and he found both at Trinity. And he found a spiritual guide in Wright...
...books, Obama says he might not have become a Christian - his mother was a skeptical secularist and his absent father an atheist - if not for the special character of the black church. "Out of necessity, the black church had to minister to the whole person. Out of necessity, the black church rarely had the luxury of separating individual salvation from collective salvation," he writes in The Audacity of Hope. It also matched his intellectual curiosity. "Perhaps it was out of this ... grounding of faith in struggle that the historically black church offered me a second insight: that faith doesn...