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...other living saints, giving means devoting their lives entirely to the needs of orphans. Austrian Catholic Hermann Gmeiner, 56, saw that need in the wake of World War II, when Europe was crowded with homeless refugee children. He took a leaf from his childhood-an older sister had raised the eight other children after his mother died-and built the first in a series of "S O S villages" that now care for 15,000 orphans round the world. Every village consists of a cluster of houses, each presided over by a foster mother who cares for eight...
...attempt to catch up on a staggering back load of correspondence, watches a ship move up the river, strips and dances for pleasure, eats a lunch of cheese and nuts and fruit and yogurt, while he reads a book about apes or bees or the structure of a leaf, plays his radio, plans his technique class, makes a cup of coffee, reviews his notes on a dance to be revived, and for a few hours, if he's lucky enough to go undisturbed...Merce putters blissfully and enjoys the small clutter of activities which make him whole...
What is a potato chip? For more than a century after an American Indian chef named George Crum first deep-fried leaf-thin slices of raw potato in his hotel kitchen in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., the answer seemed obvious. Recently, however, the definition of a chip has become controversial. Reason: products like Pringle's Newfangled Potato Chips, made by Procter & Gamble Co. out of a dehydrated mash of cooked potatoes and marketed in tennis-ball-like cans. Newfangled chips have a long shelf life and can be shipped over long distances without breaking. Put into national distribution this year...
Society has always expected that hopelessly ill patients would be allowed to die in hospitals and has hoped that doctors would practice certain forms of euthanasia, says Dr. Alexander Leaf, who as Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine directs medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Where society has abdicated, he says, is in failing to give explicit approval to the practice or in defining just which patients should be allowed...
...sake, that has nothing to do with what your view or my view of life is," Dr. Alexander Leaf, Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine and director of medicine at the Harvard teaching hospital, says. "We're not talking about someone lying comfortably in bed and some brute comes along and ends their life...