Word: jerseyed
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Harvard (10-2 overall, 7-2 ECAC, 6-1 Ivy League) has won Easterns for the past eight years in a row, but will be given a strong challenge by a Princeton team that soundly defeated it in their dual meet three weeks ago in New Jersey...
...Reed moved from Buffalo to New York City and became actively involved in the birth of the Black arts and Black power movements as well as various underground integrated political-cultural organizations. He served as editor of Advance, a Newark, New Jersey weekly and then moved on to found the East Village Other, the first non-conventional newspaper to achieve national circulation. He also participated in the Umbra Workshop, a Black writers' group which "began the influorescene of Black Poetry as well as other recent styles of Afro-American writing," he says. In 1966, he published his first novel...
Such thinking played a significant role in the famous 1976 New Jersey Supreme Court case that permitted the Catholic parents of comatose Karen Ann Quinlan to have her respirator removed. The Quinlans' lawyer, Paul Armstrong, also a Catholic, was among the Boston conferees. He has noted that since the Quinlan ruling, many Americans have come to view kidney dialysis, cancer chemotherapy and the use of respirators as treatments that can be halted if they become too burdensome physically, emotionally and financially. When such methods are onerous and have a minimal chance of success, Catholic moral theologians term them "extraordinary," meaning...
...with which experts on ethics, especially Catholics, are currently struggling. Is a surgically implanted nourishment tube similar to optional forms of medical technology, or is it more akin to the simple providing of food and water for the sick, which is a moral requirement for everyone? The New Jersey bishops' brief in the Jobes case insists that medical treatments are wholly different from food and fluids, which "are basic to human life." Nutrition, say the bishops, "must always be provided to a patient." But as the CHA experts saw it, neither the Vatican nor the U.S. bishops' conference takes such...
...Senator John Chafee of Rhode Island introduced a bill this month to increase the federal excise tax on cigarettes from 16 cents to 32 cents. He estimates his bill would raise $9 billion over three years. Critics complain that such a tax is regressive, hitting mainly the poor. New Jersey's Democratic Senator Bill Bradley has proposed a narrower bill, disallowing advertising costs for tobacco products as a tax-deductible business expense, which he says would raise $2 billion over three years. A number of corporations have moved to curb smoking in the workplace. For example, Chicago's Northern Trust...