Word: optioned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...physician aid-in-dying the most moral, compassionate and reasonable option to relieve suffering among the terminally ill? Would this new right provide a greater degree of control and freedom to a dying individual, or would it only weaken our society's respect for life? Can alternative approaches to dying allow one to experience a good death? More fundamentally, do our lives ultimately belong to us or to the larger community in which we are deeply rooted...
...therapies for congestive heart failure--drugs and heart transplant--has proved particularly effective. Medications such as ace inhibitors keep the body's blood pressure down, making it easier for a weakened heart to circulate blood, but they do not fix the organ. In late-stage heart failure, the only option is a heart transplant. But while as many as 50,000 people in the U.S. alone need a heart transplant, only 2,500 transplants are performed there each year. Heart transplants have proved quite effective, with mortality rates of only 20% after a year (but 20% to 30% of patients...
...sleeping sickness. The African trypanosome parasite that causes it is a distant cousin of the kala-azar protozoan. Infection rates in some villages in Western Equatoria, just south of the western Upper Nile, are already running at 20%. Experts question whether the disease can be treated without hospitalization--an option that, because of the large numbers infected, is out of the question. It is the kind of impossible field-medical problem that is tailor-made for Jill Seaman, and she has already indicated that she would like to get involved--if the decision makers in Nairobi...
Students who cannot make the new time have the option of dropping the class...
EUROPE. Many pros believe the Continent is just a few years behind the U.S. in terms of corporate restructurings, cost cutting and providing executives with lucrative stock-option incentives. If they are right, the region is ripe for some strong market surges. Loretta Morris, manager of the Nicholas-Applegate Worldwide Growth Portfolio, is finding dozens of stocks to her liking, especially among export-driven companies benefiting from weakening currencies. Her favorite countries are Germany, the Netherlands and France. Favorite stocks include the French oil company Elf Aquitaine, Dutch electronics-giant Philips and German carmaker Volkswagen...