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...week, in contrast to about $15 for disposables. Safety pins and pinpricks are passe, since today's diapers can be slipped into cloth wraps that fasten with Velcro. "Everything is there for you," says Maureen Medway of Ringoes, N.J., who relies on a diaper service for her newborn son. "There's no reason not to use cloth...
...historic taboo about mercy killing gradually erodes, the courts and legislatures are struggling to be sure that the vulnerable are protected -- that, in the case of the severely disabled, the right to die not become a duty to die. They fear, for example, that medical care for newborn babies may come to depend on some cost-benefit analysis of their chance of living a "full healthy and active life." In the Baby Doe case in 1982, the Indiana courts allowed a couple to refuse surgery for their baby born with Down's syndrome and an incomplete esophagus; after six days...
...performing in large cities. But then Senator Edward Kennedy asked Leonid Brezhnev to let them go to the U.S., and they soon got passports. "For me, at 47, life ended," Rostropovich says. "I was born anew on May 26, 1974. There was no continuity. I was truly like a newborn. I couldn't speak the language of the place I was in. I had no place to live. I had no real friends...
...Klerk counts himself an optimist. Last week he went home to the Transvaal to see his newborn first grandson, and expressed his hope for the future. "I think he's going to be part of a country on its way to greatness," said the State President. A country on its way to something, yes, but no one knows precisely what. That newborn baby is among the first generation of Afrikaners whose future is not assured. While the past in South Africa appears to be dying, the future is yet to be born...
Stuart, whose newborn son died 17 days after the Oct. 23 shooting, flung himself from the 300-foot high Tobin Bridge into Boston Harbor hours after what prosecutors said was a dramatic disclosure that swung the focus of the investigation to Stuart...