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Although the Quinlan case has attracted worldwide attention, it is, in its tragic essentials, not that rare. The only estimate for "terminal patients kept alive by mechanical means," says Dr. Robert Veatch of the Institute of Society, Ethics and the Life Sciences, is "lots and lots." Doctors in such cases often act alone and disconnect life-supporting machinery. "It is done all the time," says New Jersey Neurological Surgeon Arthur Winter. In Denver Anna Mair made the decision two years ago after her son David, 10, had been hit by a truck. Realizing that he would "never be anything...
Unfortunately, Quinn is not alone in his anguish; thousands of other jobless Illinoisans also have been kept waiting to get their benefit checks for inexcusably long periods. Just how many cannot be counted, since the IBES has been no more efficient at keeping track of how far behind it is than at handing out the money. But in August only 46.8% of Illinois jobless got their first checks within 28 days of filing a claim-the standard laid down by the U.S. Department of Labor. By contrast, 80% of the jobless in New York and Ohio, and 88% in California...
Director-Writer Joan Silver, who used to produce educational shorts and is making her feature debut, has a palpable affection for her characters and a passion for period detail. She has made excellent use of limited resources, kept much of the dialogue in Yiddish (translated in subtitles) and evoked a persuasive sense of the past. Indeed, Silver has little trouble with her "little movie's" practical problems. It is quite another kind of challenge that confounds...
Chartered helicopters still waited to carry copy to distant printing plants, but those $108-an-hour air taxis were being kept only for emergencies. For the first time since the Washington Post's pressmen went on strike and sabotaged nine presses early this month (TIME, Oct. 13), the paper was able to turn out a full 550,000-copy edition in its own plant last week. The pressmen's walkout has been joined by three other Post unions, but the nation's eighth largest morning paper seemed to be adjusting to the siege remarkably well...
...sexual waywardness and permissiveness are recent inventions. Public figures could keep mistresses and acknowledge their illegitimate children-as Benjamin Franklin did-without losing their good names or even their reputations as moralists. George Washington had to chase Philadelphia prostitutes from Valley Forge. In New York 500 "ladies of pleasure" kept lodgings in an area called Holy Ground because it was owned by Trinity Church...