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...world's greatest heart-lung surgeons, caused a public outcry earlier this month when he suggested that a person should be declared dead when a flat EEG pattern shows that his brain has definitely and irrevocably ceased to function. Dr. Crafoord was concerned about truly hopeless cases, but the kin of patients being kept alive with mechanical aids jumped to the conclusion that he meant the devices should be shut off, the patients declared dead, and their organs used for transplants...
...shape affairs according to the desires of those concerned, and generally the faith that a certain rationality will be inherent in these choices on most imporan occasions. It is not undemocratic in these senses to draw distinctions such as 2-S has attempted; a lottery abandons the attempt as hopeless. But could not 2-S be kept and even more skillfully used to overcome some of the problems of group poverty that are the real plague of the present system? Use 2-S to broaden the base of higher education by granting it with special largesse and tolerance among those...
...long debate over the first point, the tutors generally agreed that some change should be made in the present sophomore tutorial. "Sophomore tutorial is hopeless as it is now," a tutor said, explaining that beginning concentrators are unprepared to cope with the advanced study of history...
Some of their hopes were realized; others bogged down in hopeless inefficiency and bad planning. Businessmen were soon complaining about government interference; everyone else griped about the junta's delay in calling elections. Recently, the political right, center and left formed a united opposition that erupted in a series of demonstrations by merchants and students alike. As the decibel count climbed in Quito and the commercial capital of Guayaquil, the junta's patience began running out. Two weeks ago, 500 troops armed with rifles and machine guns swarmed onto the campus of Quito's Central University, firing...
...course studying films is hopeless without having films on hand to study--I took it for granted, and said I took it for granted, that I was not being telephoned to confirm that. What I emphasized was not merely the need for a film library as a condition for research and instruction, but also the function of such an institution in simply helping to preserve this body of perishing work. That so little effort has been given to this is only another instance of American culture's mad ingratitude or indifference toward its own best products. American universities are coming...