Word: matters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have been compared with both Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, both in scope of your subject matter and in your treatment of the psychology and ideas of your characters. What is your relationship to each of these two authors...
...with pregnancy from getting involved." The Roman Catholic Church, in company with many conservative Protestant groups, opposes all in vitro fertilization. Nonetheless, the Yorks have received moral support in their suit from the Right to Life League of Southern California. "Howard Jones has no rights in this matter," says president Susan Carpenter McMillan. "He's playing God -- in effect saying 'I created this life, so I can decide what to do with it.' But he only provided the tools, not the materials...
...ethicists agree that the couple's proprietary right to their embryo is not absolute. Some specialists contend that institutes and laboratories should have the right to prevent couples from authorizing inappropriate experimentation on embryos. These experts believe that couples considering in vitro fertilization should seek professional counseling as a matter of course. They should decide in advance what is to be done with the zygote if they do not use it because of death or divorce, and their decision should always be codified in a legally binding contract. "The power to decide should be agreed upon at inception," says John...
...President Bush, used his connections at HUD to ensure funding for an unwanted $43 million rehabilitation of dilapidated housing in Seabrook, N.J. Not only was he a partner in the development firm involved on the project, but he also received $326,000 in fees for his trouble. The matter went unreported for three years. Are there any lessons to be learned from the HUD fiasco? Offered one Washington reporter: "Just because something's silent, that doesn't mean it's asleep...
...unstated premise is simply put: no more intifadeh, no more need for peace. Even the downside is welcomed. Given the undisputed hardening of opinion -- especially among those Israelis and Palestinians who have reached their majority since Israel took the West Bank and Gaza in 1967 -- failing to resolve the matter peacefully now will almost inevitably lead to another region-wide Arab-Israeli war. "Which we would win," says an aide to Ariel Sharon confidently. "And then we will be that much closer to the transfer" -- Israeli-speak for kicking the Palestinians out of the territories once...