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...footnote to the Essay on euthanasia? It is easier for Dr. W.F. Anderson of Glasgow than it is for American physicians to take the position that modern drugs can keep a patient sufficiently pain-free to make mercy killing obsolete. Dr. Anderson practices in Britain where it is legal for a doctor to give heroin to a patient (usually a terminal-cancer victim) after morphine has ceased to be effective. In the U.S. it is unlawful for a physician to employ this most potent of all painkilling drugs even for a patient in extremis, for whom there...
Darrell created Hoffmann after moving his London-based Western Theater Ballet to Glasgow in 1970, where it became the government-subsidized (98%) Scottish Theater Ballet. "Scotland doesn't see a great deal of ballet," says Darrell, 43. "It's a matter of educating the public. I wanted to do a ballet that was going to be popular." Fair enough-for Scotland. But whether Hoffmann will catch on with the sophisticates among American Ballet Theater's audience is another matter...
...standard measures of wellbeing, but is catching up (see charts). Income is still distributed inequitably, with many poor people within the richer member countries of the Common Market and widespread chronic poverty in the poorer nations of Italy, Britain and Ireland. All too many homes in the slums of Glasgow lack baths and hot water, and in France thousands of working-class families can afford meat only once or twice a week. Throughout the Common Market, however, social benefits help to compensate for low incomes. Medical services are free, or virtually free; family allowances ($65 a month for three children...
...Sidey and Shaw also reported on the interplay between the visiting press corps and their hosts (see PRESS). After work on Wednesday 50 Americans tuned in on a soccer match between the Glasgow Rangers and the Moscow Dynamos. With Russian coaching, Americans quickly became vocal Dynamo rooters (the Scots won, 3 to 2). Friendliness was also found elsewhere. While walking through a Moscow market, Schecter was stopped by a woman shopkeeper and presented with a bouquet of tulips. "Moscow is at its best this week," he concluded, "and it's fun to be back...
...Glasgow in the late 1950s to work for the Hudson's Bay Company above the Arctic Circle, has its moments of old-style adventure and anthropological insight. The author is brisk, precise, modest as he tells about fighting with mean Eskimos, cajoling lazy Eskimos, foiling marriage-minded Eskimos and learning how to carve an igloo with a snow knife. Eskimos, it appears, have 33 distinct words to describe snow in various conditions from soft to firmish, "but not quite firm enough to build a snow-house." There is only one Eskimo word for all the 150 different kinds...