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...limits on available organs and funds require some compromise on the issue of transplants, yet the limited capacity approach can be only part of the solution. The issue of organ transplant distinguishes itself from other pressing medical controversies, like abortion, because it creates a competition that entails the somewhat morbid prospect of the buying and selling of organs, and thus lives, for profit. The "limited capacity" scenario allows for "retrospective review," i.e. hindsight, because it slows down transplant technology. However, this slowdown could actually limit the possibility of resolving the competition by removing the constraints--by developing the technology...
Perhaps the most morbid of America's national landmarks was set ablaze last week in Dallas. Arsonists started a fire in the basement of the old Texas School Book Depository, the red brick seven-story structure, now the Dallas County administration building, from which Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed President Kennedy in 1963. Because the decades-old sprinkler system had been turned off for repairs, flames made their way through the building walls. It took 100 fire fighters two hours to control the blaze, which damaged only the first two floors of the structure. "Whoever did it might...
...with Verena. Beyond her fiery, teary feminist rhetoric, Ransom finds in her all he wants in a wife. While the girl is intrigued by the handsome stranger, and enjoys flirting as much as prosletyzing. Basil's intrusions into the idyll fill Olive--his distant cousin, it turns out--with morbid jealousy. The crossfire of affection, jealousy, and sheer emotional blackmail swirling around Verena intensifies, as Basil follows the women to the Vineyard, insistent that she allow him to replace Olive, the cause, and just about everything else in her life...
...measured, calculated way." At the top of the list is hyperinflation: the monthly cost of living jumped by 18.5% in April, which is equal to an annual rate of 560.2%. In most countries, newspaper headlines and gossip focus on crime or sports; in Argentina, there is a morbid fascination with the economy. Even during the Falkland Islands war with Britain, the major topic of conversation continued to be the pocketbook. People are also intensely interested in talking about Argentina's $43.6 billion foreign debt, which represents about 75% of last year's gross domestic product...
...court controversy is adding to what many see as a morbid carnival surrounding the death. The New York Post recounted Kennedy's recent dates and romantic interests and printed a poem reportedly written by him while in a drug-rehabilitation facility. In the Los Angeles Times last week, Diane Broughton, a writer and cable television talk-show host, felt compelled to correct the story that David Kennedy was alone in a hotel room 16 years ago when he saw his father's assassination on television. Broughton, then a campaign worker for Senator Kennedy, says that she was babysitting...