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...called Western-Pagan -- along with the development of intellectual life and science, there has been a loss of the serious moral basis of society. During these 300 years of Western civilization, there has been a sweeping away of duties and an expansion of rights. But we have two lungs. You can't breathe with just one lung and not with the other. We must avail ourselves of rights and duties in equal measure. And if this is not established by the law, if the law does not oblige us to do that, then we have to control ourselves. When Western...
There is no posturing, however, in the taut, emotion-driven chapter that tells of his father's death at age 54. Surgery to remove a cancer-infected lung disclosed that the disease had spread, inoperably. Reynolds, then a junior at Duke University, was at his bedside, holding the "warm, dead flesh" of Will's wrist, when the end came. He heard "a high moan, an eerie whistle." As Will's head pressed deep into the pillows, "the eyes stayed shut but the skin of his face turned purple, and the hard wave rolled downward from mind to feet...
...public romance with Dimitra Liani, a former airline flight attendant half his age. But Papandreou's Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) slid only far enough to lose its majority. And since no other party won more than half the seats, Papandreou, who was hospitalized in serious condition last week with lung, heart and kidney complications, is staying on as caretaker Prime Minister while the struggle continues to form a government...
UMWA spokesperson Kenneth Zinn said the Connecticut-based company's board has "taken away health coverage from senior citizens, widows, people with black lung disease, men whose backs were broken in its own coal mines...
...Robert Stone works in a luxury corporate office in Manhattan," Zinn said. "He doesn't have to look into the eyes of coal miners who have black lung disease because their health benefits have been cut off by his company. If he isn't going to come down to the coal fields, we'll come up here...