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...awards to social activists each year. Gleitsman died last year at age 76. These awards, known as the Gleitsman International and Citizen Activist awards, will now be handed down by the Center for Public Leadership. The awards have stirred occasional controversy—recipients include Ralph Nader and Jack Kevorkian. Center for Public Leadership Director David R. Gergen said the membership of the awards committee will not change and will continue to honor what Gleitsman stood for when giving the awards. “We ought to be daring because agents of social change are often controversial. That goes with...
...JACK KEVORKIAN, just released from an eight-year prison stint for helping more than 130 people commit suicide, on how he promised a parole board to refrain from assisting others...
...toward center stage at least since 1990, when the court, in Cruzan v. Missouri Department of Health, established a patient's right to be taken off life support. In 1991, Quill, a New York physician, wrote in a medical journal about assisting a suicide. Meanwhile, retired Michigan pathologist Jack Kevorkian began a string of assisted or supervised deaths that now stands at 46. Three times Michigan authorities charged Kevorkian with murder, and thrice juries cleared him. Oregon voters seemed of similar mind when, in 1994, they passed a referendum allowing assisted suicide, and a nationwide Gallup poll in April showed...
...microprocessor brains for the iPod started shipping a new chip last month that consumes less power--meaning that iPod's bugbear, its mediocre battery life, may soon be banished. Advantage, Apple. "There's a gap between understanding what users want and being able to provide it," says Susan Kevorkian, an analyst at market-research firm International Data Corp. Apple's main edge, she says, is the iPod's sophisticated software and "deceptively simple" user interface...
...anti-iPods still can't match Apple's ease of use. But they're getting closer. "In a device category as young as digital-music players and services," says Kevorkian, "no lead is insurmountable." There's more than one way to peel an Apple...