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...Shall Live? In the article about a new method of screening fetuses for Down syndrome in the first trimester [Nov. 21], TIME asked, "Is a life with the syndrome worth living?" Perhaps we should think again about what Americans value. We pride ourselves on our tolerance and progress against discrimination. Yet encouragement to terminate less-than-perfect pregnancies will surely lead to more discrimination against the living handicapped. Can we praise ourselves as a nondiscriminatory society when we question whether people who are not the most highly functioning are worth saving, let alone worth tolerating or protecting? Megan Smylie Vernon...
...communicating that we're in an era when the church meets in a variety of ways," Haggard says. "This is what makes American Evangelicalism so great. We're so diverse. The meaning of Christmas is more important than the church service itself. The message is more important than the method...
...better communications. Bush dashed into the Rose Garden late last week to declare that the economy "continues to gain strength and momentum." The event had been thrown together so quickly that the usual velvet ropes were not set up to pen back journalists. "We're trying the trusting method," an aide joked. Merry glasnost...
...article about a new method of screening fetuses for Down syndrome in the first trimester [Nov. 21], TIME asked, "Is a life with the syndrome worth living?" We pride ourselves on our tolerance. Yet encouragement to terminate less-than-perfect pregnancies will surely lead to more discrimination against the living handicapped. Can we praise ourselves as a nondiscriminatory society when we question whether people who are not the most highly functioning are worth saving--let alone worth tolerating or protecting...
...revelation of Robin’s true identity, which forces Richard to give up Rose and submit to the bullying of his dead relatives, who emerge from portraits to browbeat their less-than-imposing descendant. It’s all resolved in the end, of course. Does the method even matter? The entire story is mechanism for getting from song to song far more than the songs are a way to advance the story...