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Humphry, like Kevorkian, has urged physicians to assist in patient suicides. But much of the medical community remains deeply divided over this issue. Doctors see firsthand the agony that confronts the terminally ill and the resources spent prolonging some lives that might be diverted to improving the lives of others. Many thus favor laws that make it easier for patients to reject aggressive medical care, and urge the stricken to make out living wills so that their wishes...
...microcosm for hundreds of company towns built around ailing industries. "It's a subtle story," says senior editor Stephen Koepp. "It's about how these people became dependent on, almost addicted to, a way of life." It's also a story about cheating and corruption, practices that Gup experienced firsthand. One day a mine tour he had been promised was abruptly canceled. Reason given: a federal agent was inspecting the facilities, although there was no inspector there. Several witnesses told Gup the real reason was that safety equipment hastily erected for an earlier inspection had been removed. Later, another mine...
...during most of Ronald Reagan's second term, he covered the Iran-contra affair, speaking often with North's colleagues in the West Wing and on the National Security Council. He never succeeded in cornering the elusive lieutenant colonel himself, although he did once glimpse the infamous paper shredder. Firsthand knowledge of the players did not prevent Seaman from being surprised by some of the revelations in Under Fire, however. One disclosure was the extent to which the late CIA director William Casey "ran" North, schooling his eager protege in the basics of off-the- books operations. Another eye-opener...
Besides her firsthand experience with the Yardlings, Mackay-Smith says, she is relying heavily on the advising structure Moses built...
...AIDS activists and health-care workers have seen firsthand the devastation that ignorance can yield. Of the 1 million to 1.5 million HIV- infected Americans, an estimated one-fifth are teenagers. So far, the cases are clustered in certain populations: mostly blacks and Hispanics who are gay or drug users, living in major cities. "We have a teenage client dying with AIDS right now," says Frances Kunreuther, executive director of New York City's Hetrick-Martin Institute, a service center for gay and lesbian young people. "No one told him about AIDS, condoms or homosexuality. If you deny young people...