Word: life-support
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...last week at United Nations headquarters in New York City to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the 1992 environmental be-in known as the Rio Earth Summit. The heads of state were supposed to decide what further steps should be taken to halt the decline of Earth's life-support systems. In fact, this meeting had much the flavor of the original Earth Summit. To wit: empty promises, hollow rhetoric, hypocritical posturing, bickering between rich and poor, and irrelevant initiatives. Think Congress in slow motion...
Bartlett, 70, has deeply conservative political beliefs and a background in engineering and medical science. He invented life-support equipment for pilots and astronauts before becoming a politician. And in Congress he has supported funding for NASA and nuclear-power technology. Given the district's political conservatism, he remains a favorite...
...Physicians do not fulfill the role of 'killer' by prescribing drugs to hasten death any more than they do by disconnecting life-support systems," writes Judge Miner. This is pernicious nonsense. There is a great difference between, say, not resuscitating a stopped heart--allowing nature to take its course--and actively killing someone. In the first case the person is dead. In the second he only wishes to be dead. And in the case of life sustained by artificial hydration or ventilation, pulling the plug simply prevents an artificial prolongation of the dying process. Prescribing hemlock initiates...
...this year, that streak is on life-support. Harvard would have to jump up five spots, which is a lot to ask in less than two weeks. Two of the Crimson's losses won't hurt its chances too much--a 14-4 defeat last weekend to No. 1 Maryland and a early 10-5 loss at the hands of No. 2 Princeton--but the third, a close 10-9 loss to a fired-up No. 9 Yale, really makes the playoffs difficult...
...officer serving in Africa was beaten up and jailed for a month. Another, grabbed by a Hizballah faction in Beirut, managed to talk his way out by convincing his fundamentalist captors that he was a U.S. narcotics agent fighting evil drugs. ``You've got to be your own life-support system,'' says John F. Quinn, who once worked as a NOC officer in Tokyo collecting economic intelligence. ``You're out in the cold. You're alone. You have to be a tightrope walker all the time, balancing your corporate job, your intelligence job and your mental sanity...