Word: life
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many Asian-Americans are channeled early on into a narrow range of academic study, Kiang said. He said that 18 percent of the Ph.D.'s earned by Asian-Americans are in the field of engineering, 20 percent are in the physical sciences and 25 percent are in the life sciences...
...Pope John Paul II have spoken out against life-styles in the West, against materialism and abortion. How alarmed...
...choose that. That is the difference between us and the poor. Because that will bring us closer to our poor people. How can we be truthful to them if we lead a different life? What language will I speak to them...
Another casualty of the Administration's pro-life offensive is Government support for research on in-vitro fertilization, in which eggs are extracted from a woman's ovaries, fertilized in a glass dish, then implanted in the donor's womb. Next week a House subcommittee will release a report charging that the Department of Health and Human Services has shied away from funding research on "test-tube fertilization" because of pressure from right-to-life groups. As a consequence, the discovery of new techniques to make the procedure more reliable and lower its cost (currently $6,000 for each attempted...
...Administration's hostility to in-vitro research is more puzzling than its opposition to experiments with fetal tissue. The goal of the technique is to assist infertile couples who want children, an objective that seems to square with the President's pro-family views. Opponents argue that since human life begins at conception, the accidental but inevitable destruction of some embryos during in-vitro fertilization is murder. The irony is that in their zealous defense of the lives of "unborn children," the foes of in-vitro fertilization are preventing other children from ever being born...