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...Baltimore three years ago, the parents of a newborn Mongoloid baby refused to allow an operation to correct a fatal defect in the infant's digestive tract. Despite pressure from doctors and hospital personnel, they refused to change their minds, and the child slowly starved to death...
...courts have provided little guidance in the issue. Judges have overruled parents and ordered such lifesaving measures as blood transfusions or surgery in cases involving older children with life-threatening illnesses. But they have yet to rule definitively on the question of withholding treatment from the grossly malformed newborn; no legal action has yet been brought against a parent for refusing to authorize such treatment...
...Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau received the same present from his wife Margaret; a son. On Christmas Day 1971 Justin Pierre was born. This Christmas Day Alexandre Emmanuel arrived. Two days after taking Justin to the hospital in Ottawa to see his brother, Trudeau announced the name of his newborn son. He said he had selected Emmanuel (Hebrew for God with us), while his wife had chosen Alexandre, "after the saint, the Czar or the Pope-take the one you want," joked Trudeau, adding that the baby would be known simply as Sacha...
...fact, he has a great many other requirements to work through first, including the death-of-the-newborn-baby scene, the man-alone-in-the-city scene, and assorted other episodes that melt together into a trampled, slushy texture. There are also a lot of standard service comedy jokes that sound like an R-rated Sergeant Bilko...
...studies of ducks and a gaggle of other animals in early childhood. Since then, in Austria and, after 1951, at the Max Planck Institute of Behavioral Physiology near Munich, he confirmed that his animal subjects inherited certain instincts, but that other kinds of behavior are learned or "imprinted." The newborn duckling will be imprinted to follow the first moving object it sees, whether it is its mother, a cardboard box or a balloon...