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Larry Temkin, a fellow of the Program in Ethics and the Professions, commented afterwards, "It is clear that there are situations in which one must lie, such as to save a life. The question is whether or not Alan Ryan has given a newer explanation that widens the scope of situations in which it is permissible...
Broadway, that fabulous invalid, never looked frailer or more gallant, never seemed more aware of its glorious past and its tenuous future, than on Tony Award night this past June. Musty old plays and musicals hogged the spotlight from newer works. Producer George Abbott, 106 years old and looking every minute of it, showed up to remind the assembled swells and the TV audience that Damn Yankees, which he had confected four decades ago, was again the liveliest show in town. The cathedral of commercial theater had reopened as a museum and a mausoleum. The place was awash in memories...
...tests being performed in Maryland involve two different techniques: RFLP (for restriction fragment length polymorphisms) and a newer process called PCR (polymerase chain reaction). Both are based on the fact that no two people except for identical twins have identical...
...long periods of time. "Plenty of existing drugs that are not on the list can cause all kinds of problems," says Dr. Judith Ahronheim, who specializes in treating older patients at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. In addition, she says, "there are many other newer drugs that might be potentially harmful for older people...
Cholera and a newer threat, dysentery, have killed at least 50,000 Rwandan refugees in the last two weeks, and humanitarian officials fear that their plan to have refugees return from border camps in Zaire could spread disease throughout Rwanda. The rescue effort itself is drawing controversy: physicians are criticizing the U.N. World Food Program for transporting choleric refugees back to Rwanda's capital, Kigali. In one wave, 16 ill people apparently infected 700 others...