Word: functioning
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Ferrara also lists "alternative" functions of the handgun, and this is where his muddled thinking shows through. The second big function, according to the article, is self-defense. The distinction between self-defense and killing must be a very fine one--unless one doesn't consider a criminal to be a living thing. The other claims of handgun functions are ridiculous. Handguns are too inaccurate for target practice, neither powerful enough for big game hunting nor accurate enough for small game, and certainly not rare enough to be desirable to collectors...
...committee on Optimum Care to the Hopelessly Ill at Mass General should be commended for its efforts to produce explicit guidelines for doctors when deciding such cases. Its recommendations, which were accepted by the hospital in September, advise that patients whose brains do not function and who show no prospect of recovery should be taken off expensive life support measures. The report argues that if a patient has no brain function--even if he breathes and has a pulse--he is dead. The committee accepted as its criteria for death the Harvard standard, developed by a committee at the Medical...
...Boston museums is worth visiting, if only to see the "Feejee Mermaid" that made a fortune for Barnum & Bailey as a sideshow attraction. Carpenter Center's exhibition of hand weaving and basketwork exemplifies Horatio Greenough's dictum that "Beauty is the promise of action," better known as "Form follows function...
...Liberal Imagination, 1950; The Opposing Self, 1955.) In studies ranging from Jane Austen to Tolstoy to Orwell to Freud, he sketched a view of man struggling to assert himself against the forces of his society. In Beyond Culture: Essays on Literature and Learning (1965), Trilling argued that "the primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment...
...reason is that Mass General Hospital, under a report from its committee on Optimum Care to the Hopelessly Ill, set up guidelines in September for the removal from expensive life support of patients whose brains no longer function...