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...Heritage Dictionary defines murder as "the unlawful killing of one human being by another." In recent rallies around the country, the animal rights movement promoted a different definition for murder: manufacturing, selling and wearing fur coats...
This distinction, while obvious enough, is of utmost importance in analyzing the growing strength of the animal rights movement in the United States. While some of its goals may be noble, and some of its means acceptable, its basic premise is faulty. Most of the animal rights groups gaining publicity and popularity in the United States do think that killing animals is murder because they believe that animals and humans have the exact same right to live free from undue pain and suffering...
Around the world, in war zones and areas stricken by natural disasters, a special breed of doctors and nurses are infusing the Hippocratic oath with new force, risking their lives out of a commitment to what Dr. Bernard Kouchner, one of the founders of the movement, calls "the duty to interfere." Volunteer medics are treating tribespeople for malaria and tuberculosis in East Africa, performing amputations on victims of land mines in Sri Lanka, building clean-water systems in El Salvador and operating surgical clinics, often under gunfire, in the Palestinian refugee camps of Lebanon...
...volunteer medical movement is dominated by three Paris-based organizations -- Medecins sans Frontieres, Medecins du Monde and Aide Medicale Internationale -- whose aim is to bring medical assistance to troubled and neglected corners of the world, without regard to political orientation or government approval. The need these groups serve is illustrated by an M.S.F. poster showing a doctor examining a sick child. Beneath the photograph is the caption IN THEIR WAITING ROOM: MORE THAN 2 BILLION PEOPLE...
...prices reflect the true costs of production and to curtail subsidies. Last week authorities unveiled new rules barring private cooperatives from engaging in certain kinds of businesses -- for example, selling jewelry and renting videos. Only five days before these restrictions were announced, Gorbachev had called for a "stronger cooperative movement" during...