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President Ershad set up camp on Urirchar to take control of rescue operations and relief efforts. Nearby, many of the island farmers, having laid their kin to rest, bravely set about rebuilding. Yet even as reconstruction got under way, floods 200 miles away battered the northeastern regions of the ill-starred country and 300,000 more Bangladeshis lost their homes...
...Minh City are packed with foreign goods: Spam and Tang, Zest and Lux, A&W root beer and Del Monte prunes, Remy Martin cognac, Wilson tennis racquets and balls, Japanese TVs and calculators. Vietnamese are allowed to receive up to four packages each year from friends or kin abroad. Some families subsist exclusively from the sale of such foreign goods...
There's an intermediate ground between presumed consent and complete dependence--you could call it "required request." It would oblige physicians to ask [next of kin for permission to harvest organs]. With this sanction, that the doctors will always ask, it would overcome doctors' reluctance to do so, and reduce the trauma of the families. It would be a sanctioned part of social discourse which is something which, to me, we clearly should...
...wife and his own children. This is an extraordinary response. It certainly could not have improved his sleep. It did not even solve the ethical dilemma. After all, the Salk children were put at risk, and they were no less innocent than the rest. But by involving his own kin (and himself), Salk arranged to suffer with the others if his science failed. He crossed the line that separates user from used. By joining his fate to the used, he did not so much solve the ethical problem as turn it, heroically, into an existential...
...night he saw her in a restaurant, and she recognized him. He walked over to apologize and explain, but before he could say a word, she shouted happily, "Kin-keeeee...