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...TIME's Person of the Year, People Who Mattered, and more...
...transplanting a face transforms a patient's identity. Even though differences in the underlying bony structure mean the recipient is unlikely to resemble the donor once the procedure is completed, it's impossible for the patient's sense of self not to be profoundly shaken. "Picture yourself as a person who has received a face transplant," says Dr. Eric Kodish, the team's lead bioethicist. "Now use your moral imagination...
...elevated into ceremony, habits in party clothes. A Woody Allen character viewed tradition as "the illusion of permanence," but I think that's exactly wrong; our traditions are a ballast against inventions and innovations that blow us faster into a future we have not prepared for. (See TIME's Person of the Year, People Who Mattered, and more...
...Every person who applies to companies wants to demonstrate ways they’ve overcome challenges,” Wright says. “Unless you grew up in New York’s West Village or [San Francisco’s] Castro, being out tends to imply overcoming of a challenge...
...temporary appointment to the U.S. Senate until we could have a special election. I am concerned that we always have two Senators from Illinois representing us in Washington, and I think it's very important that whoever is governor get an opportunity to appoint at least a temporary person until an election could take place," he said on Meet the Press...