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...cannot allow live kidneys to be sold at market. It would produce a society in which the lower orders are literally cut up to serve as spare parts for the upper. No decent society can permit that...
...allowed even to touch money on the Sabbath.) The prohibition we have today--no selling of any organs, from the living or the dead--is a fence against the commoditization of human parts. Laudable, but a fence too far. We need to move the fence in and permit incentive payments for organs from the dead...
...tickets and just had to earn them by taking four-hour shifts collecting money for the Starlight Foundation outside the cinema. They had a name, NYLine Countdown to Star Wars, and 17 staff members, including a media-relations liaison, a sponsor-relations coordinator and a treasurer. They had a permit from the city, a hotel room across the street for showers, a pay phone hooked up to take phone calls from radio stations, and a tech-support van broadcasting a live webcam pointed at the theater. This, I assume, was to prove the old saw that the only thing more...
...supporting the troops too. But soon, Clinton's expected signature began to sound like a dinner bell, and by the time negotiations on the "emergency funding" bill wound up Thursday night, the special interests had piled on. Now it's a sloppy $14.7 billion porker -- complete with a controversial permit for a gold mine on a pristine Washington State mountain and $3 million to aid commercial reindeer herders in Alaska. It could have been worse. Some $270 million in supports for oil, gas and steel companies had to be yanked at the last minute, for fear that Clinton would have...
...game will give Harvard the shot at UMass that Mother Nature did not permit last season. The two teams were supposed to square off in the 1998 Beanpot final, but rain forced a cancellation three times...