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Avid curio seekers have always flocked to Government auctions. Selling everything from Army canteens to abandoned lighthouses, the General Services Administration offered myriad bizarre bargains. Increasingly, however, the GSA has turned to fancy real estate brokering. Starting Oct. 22, the GSA will hold a series of auctions in Florida to dispose of prime property that once belonged to some of the state's most self-indulgent drug kingpins; estimated value: over $6 million...
These are only the basic complexities; the refinements are myriad. If a married couple can use a donor to help create a baby, for example, should a single woman who wants a child be allowed the same right? What about a lesbian, or a transexual or a homosexual male couple? If a surrogate mother contracts to bear another couple's child, does she have the right to smoke and drink in defiance of their wishes? Does she have the right to an abortion? And what of the baby born through such methods: Does it have a right to know...
...least 83% of the wounds were of the most serious kind: third-degree burns in which both the upper and lower layers of the skin, the epidermis and dermis, are destroyed and there is damage to underlying tissue. Even if the boys were able to ward off the myriad deadly complications, including shock and infection, they had very little skin left to heal the wounds and provide grafts to cover the massive injuries. And yet today, one year after the accident, the Selby brothers are alive and well, thanks to a new method of growing large patches of skin...
...Wall Street has insisted on going its own way. Since the first week in January, the Dow Jones has fallen almost steadily, from 1286.64 to a low point of 1086.57 on July 24. At each sign of a strong economy, the market seemed to drop defiantly. Economists study a myriad of obscure numbers to discern the state of the economy, but millions of Americans just look to the stock market-and what they saw did not jibe with the Administration's cheerleading. If the economy was so healthy, what was wrong with Wall Street...
...just north of the city. When the wind shifts, it brings poisons from the steel and cement factories in the south, in Helwan. President Gamal Abdel Nasser converted the health resort of Helwan into an industrial showpiece in the late 1950s and 1960s. Today it is notable for its myriad dead trees...