Word: organisms
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Unfortunately, the band often became so absorbed in their music that they seldomly raised their heads from their instruments; the two male Timminses, along with Alan Anton (bass), Jeff Bird (mandolin, harmonica), Spencer Evans (piano, clarinet, organ) and Ken Myhr (electric guitar) seemed to be playing more for the enrichment of their own souls than to win over the huge crowd before them...
Medical opinion on anencephalic infants (the scientific term for her condition) is unanimous in asserting that they have no possibility of a conscious or subconscious mental life. Their nervous system is not even equipped to sustain basic organ functioning beyond a few days...
...Sartre said, the failure to choose is also a decision. By refusing to pass sentence on the lives of anencephalic infants, this precedent passes sentence on the anonymous children who will die from the scarcity of organ transplants. These children are not known by name in the newspapers and were not present in the courtroom. Still, it was their lives that the judges were weighing against the lives of infants like Theresa...
...important thing to remember is that this is not a matter of humanitarian issues versus practical ones. A sick child's need for an organ transplant is also a humanitarian issue. The case of Theresa Ann forces us to question whether a baby without the capacity for sentient experience can even be an object of humanitarian concern--whether, in fact, she can be called human...
Founded in 1912 by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Pravda was closed three times by Czar Nicholas, and again by Alexander Kerensky in 1917. The once proud party organ last week lamented, with fine irony, the "planned economic strangulation of free, independent media...