Word: karen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long-held assumption is fading fast: that women are ever ready to pack up and travel for a husband's advancement. Now men are often doing the moving. Russ Ringl is giving up his position as vice president of human resources for Playboy in Chicago to follow his wife Karen to Los Angeles, where she has become vice president for nursing services at the Hospital of the Good Samaritan. Finding a satisfying job is proving a slow process, he says, though he remains optimistic. Still, he concedes, "if I was going to have a mid-life crisis, this...
...planning on it," said Karen Morris, sports information director of the University of Alaska-Fairbanks. "It [the playoff spot] has got everyone excited because now we have a place...
Ethical complexities are increasing at the start of life as well. Last week Paul Holc, the youngest heart-transplant patient ever, was alive because of how a death-and-life problem was resolved in one case. Nine weeks ago, Canadians Karen, 27, and Fred, 36, learned that their unborn child lacked most of her brain. Called anencephaly, the always fatal malformation occurs in six of 10,000 births. Determined that some good should come from their tragedy, the couple decided to donate their baby's organs...
Answering criticism about the temptation to declare death prematurely, Dr. Calvin Stiller, London's transplant-unit chief, insisted Gabriel's case represented "no slippery slope." Gabriel's parents agreed. "We cried, but we cried with joy," Karen remembers. They went out, ordered champagne and "celebrated Gabriel's contribution to this world...
...Pace University campus and runs on an annual budget of $1.6 million, met largely through foundation grants and contributions from its 11,000 members. In addition to publishing regularly, the Hastings ethicists develop model legislation, draw up guidelines for public policy, consult in such tortured cases as Karen Anne Quinlan's fate and assist universities in setting up ethics departments. "People used to think of medical ethics as between doctor and patient at the bedside," says Callahan. "We consider wider public policy, how Government spends its money, issues that affect millions of lives, as well as the exotic issues where...