Word: oxygenates
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...might claim, for example, that since he is much smaller than we are and his physical features are still underdeveloped, he is not human. Yet by that logic neither is a six-month old baby. Or maybe you maintain that because she does not take in food and oxygen through her mouth, she is not human. Yet if that is the case then a hospitalized person who takes in food intravenously or who is hooked up to a heart-lung machine relinquishes his humanity for that period of time. The belief that a fetus is sub-human because he does...
With Pat Buchanan sucking up all the available oxygen on social issues, the President made a grab for two last week--issuing a six-page manual urging public schools to adopt uniforms, and shaming network execs into labeling their programs. As a child in parochial school, I loved the savings in time and fashion anxiety a uniform made possible. The first candidate to issue a similar manual for adults gets my vote. There is a downside: offending not only the A.C.L.U. but also parents who think a $100 Polo sweater makes up for being distracted. Some teachers say it doesn...
...Massimo Troisi, star of The Postman (Il Postino). Enfeebled by a heart condition, the Italian actor was able to work only an hour or two a day on his dream movie, whose story imagined a friendship between Chilean poet Pablo Neruda and a simple postman. Two cardiologists and an oxygen tent stood by on the set for Troisi, 41, who couldn't walk more than a few feet before sitting down. A high school gym teacher had to serve as his body double for more than half his scenes. Yet the actor persisted, literally wearing his heart out: he died...
RECOVERING. CHUN DOO HWAN, 64, former South Korean President; from a 26-day hunger strike; in Seoul. Chun was arrested in December for his role in the 1979 coup that brought him to power. He was given oxygen and an intravenous drip, and should be well enough to be tried in about a month...
...hospitals could simply refuse to treat Medicaid patients. Managed care, meanwhile, is still touted as a cost-saving panacea. And it does hold promise, as many state experiments attest. But there may be only so much efficiency to be extracted from the treatment of, say, disabled seniors tethered to oxygen machines...