Word: lifeness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course, there are the Life in the Minors stories...of playing golf on free days...and when the bus stopped by an orange grove and the squad met two alligators waiting at the bus door...and then there was the time...
...Houses have reached an impasse. It may not be healthy--it's certainly not legal--to hold happy hours, but they are the one type of activity that will draw most House residents. To maintain House social life, students are searching for every loophole they can find to keep alcohol, and the masters, through creative enforcement of the ban on liquor, are coming as close to condoning the students as they can without defying the law. Ed King may be able to railroad the legislature; he has a long way to go before he can conquer Harvard...
...workings of nature, and others who cannot see the fetus as a child until the umbilical cord is cut. Invoking an almost religious fervor on both sides of the issue, abortion is one of the most emotionally potent present political controversies. Motherhood is a powerful institution in American life, and both the "Pro-choice" (supporting a woman's right to choose) and the "Pro-life" (anti-abortion) forces see the other as attacking the foundations of the mother-infant bond...
...thirds of teenage pregnancies are not planned, because many do not have adequate access to contraceptives (NARAL). And the taxpayer price of supporting a child on welfare is far greater than that of a Medicaid abortion. But the issue that provokes such anger surrounds the fetus's right to life--its status as a potential human being. Anti-abortionist proponents usually take the position that conception is life and therefore abortion is murder and violates the rights of the unborn, or that there is an inherent value in life and abortion is murder because it destroys that value...
Sometime during his first incarnation as leader of Tibet in the late 1500s, the Dalai Lama came to a momentous decision. For the sake of Tibet, he decided to reincarnate life after life in the same human niche, as leader of his country, to preserve its spiritual welfare. Each lifetime, before he dies, the Dalai Lama gives several clues as to where his soul will next be born...