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...sent to junior high school health classes rather than to the thousands of 18 to 23-year-olds at Harvard. Dean fox and Dr. Wacker tell us that "alcohol is a drug," that "the view that drunkenness is a measure of maturity is misguided and dangerous," and that "potentially lethal drinking often occurs in college under peer pressure." Certainly the administration must think we are children, not citizens old enough to vote and pay taxes I think most students would agree with me when I say that students here are familiar with the dangers of alcohol abuse, just...
...about euthanasia have pointed out, there is a grave difference between "passive" and "active" euthanasia. In the one case, a doctor may simply choose not to revive a terminally-ill patient whose heart has stopped, "letting nature take its course." In the other, a doctor actually may administer a lethal drug to put an end to a patient's suffering...
What Bouvia is requesting is not a lethal injection, but it may be construed as equally wrong: because her doctors would be forced not only to witness, but also to hasten her suicide. And it is readily understandable that this would contradict many of the implications of the Hippocratic oatch on which their profession is based...
Back in December 1980, Military Review, a journal of the U.S. Army, carried a cover story titled "The New Mental Battlefield." In his quirky essay, Lieut. Colonel John B. Alexander wrote that "there are weapons systems that operate on the power of the mind and whose lethal capacity has already been demonstrated." He equated the first strategic breakthrough in defense E.S.P. with sole possession of nuclear weapons and urged the U.S. to step up its research in the field...
...have had since 1945. The Soviets have no more interest in the destruction of Mother Russia than have we in the destruction of our beloved America. Both sides must avoid the game of "chicken"-pressing to see how far one or the other can go without crossing that lethal threshold...