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...whole matter of embryos' rights is new territory," says George Annas, professor of legal medicine at Boston University. "There are no statutes on the books here or in Australia." Experts in both countries have suggested that the wishes of the parents should be paramount in determining the fate of leftover zygotes, and that these wishes should be put in writing. Unfortunately, it is too late for the Rioses to do so. Baffled officials at Queen Victoria hospital are therefore looking for guidance from a committee appointed in 1982 by the state of Victoria to study legal questions raised...
Three men stand out as Mondale's most serious vice-presidential prospects. None is widely known. If winning Texas is paramount, Senator Lloyd Bentsen Jr. would be the reliable bet. Bentsen, 63, is a tried-and-true organization man and very conservative for a Democrat: the liberal Americans for Democratic Action gives him a 40 rating, which is in the Republican range. Indeed, Bentsen's political differences with Mondale may be too big to gloss over gracefully. His views on U.S. policy in Central America-he has supported CIA aid for the contra guerrillas in Nicaragua and does...
Sociology was an academic stepchild and psychology a minor pseudoscientific discipline not much discussed in those days. It was history that held a paramount place in the curriculum. Those of us who took Sydney Fay's course in modern European history emerged imbued with the idea that the Germans were not solely responsible for the first World War, a revolutionary thought that we digested with a certain amount of skepticism. Our bible was the Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain, which we read with a sense of the author's courage and valor that we all longed to emulate...
...after she was prevented from practicing law in Illinois because she was a woman, Myra Bradwell went to the U.S. Supreme Court. That tribunal turned her away, with Justice Joseph P. Bradley harrumphing, "The paramount mission and destiny of women are to fulfill the noble and benign offices of wife and mother. This is the law of the Creator." The law of the land has changed some in the 111 years since, and last week a Supreme Court that includes the first female Justice endorsed the use of a new weapon by women seeking full equality in the legal profession...
...early accumulation'- heavy redwood furniture that will still be around after the earthquake comes. I like to make my surroundings comfortable for a man, and for me-I am a big woman (5 ft. 7 in., 134 lbs.), with broad, sprawling movements. Neatness has never been paramount, and to sit in a room of white curtains and satin upholstery is not my idea of home...