Word: john
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...censor in the name of decency, but one of our most popular icons showed up at the Lions' den last Saturday. Elisabeth Shue '88-'90--the actress best known for her starring roles in Cocktail, Adventures in Babysitting and The Karate Kid--braved the rain to watch her brother John and the men's soccer team take on Columbia. She said she was disappointed with John's limited playing time, but still plans to catch several games this season...
...Brazilian government is again seeking the $350 million needed to complete the road all the way to Peru, a prospect that alarms environmentalists. "One lesson we have learned in the Amazon is that when you improve a road, you unleash uncontrolled development on the rain forest," says John Browder, a specialist on Rondonia's deforestation from Virginia Polytechnic Institute...
WIRED. The saddest thing about John Belushi's death might be this requiem & -- the movie Hollywood tried to stop. Next time, guys, try harder...
...respirator turned off. Some officials denounced that action, saying it set a dangerous example for the handicapped by encouraging them to end their lives rather than strive for a meaningful existence. In McAfee's case, Judge Johnson has exonerated anyone who helps the patient carry out his plan. John Banja, a professor of medical ethics at Emory University, notes that hospitals have no clear mandate for "treatment discontinuance," and the role of doctors and nurses in these affairs remains murky. However, adds Banja, "this is a clear- cut case of a rational adult. The decision lets McAfee decide...
Washington correspondent Dick Thompson pursued that question by joining a congressional fact-finding mission to the Amazon. The local contingent of our jungle team, Rio de Janeiro bureau chief Laura Lopez and reporter John Maier, made its own treks through the region. Maier was struck by how virtually everyone in the region, politician and peasant alike, knew that the Amazon was the subject of intense international debate. In speaking with one poor farmer near the Peruvian border, Maier reports, "As soon as I began asking questions, the farmer said to me, 'Whose side are you on, the environmentalists' or ours...