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...also touches directly on the question of when life begins, a central issue in the debate over abortion. Says Dr. Leonie Watson, a pro-life advocate in San Francisco: "If they can do surgery on a fetus, then it is in fact a baby." Calling that a "phony argument," Phillip Stubblefield, a gynecologist at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital, submits that a fetus is only a baby if it can live outside the womb. Says he: "Whether or not the fetus is viable is a biological phenomenon that has to do with the maturity of the fetus." One thing...
Born in Hungary on May 21, 1902. Breuer studied in and later taught at the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany. He came to the United States in 1937 to teach at Harvard, where he instructed such now-famous architects as Phillip Johnson, I.M. Pel and Edward Larrabe Barnes...
That night, more than 2000 students gathered in the Yard to hear Phillip A. Stone '62--dressed in a toga, black cape, and crowned by a laurel wreath--demand that "our diplomas be in the language which many admire although few are able to read." One protester carried a sign which warned: "No Latin, No Alumni Money...
...course, some have tried already, and the results usually have been provocative, if only occasionally enlightening. In A Rumour of War. Phillip Caputo presents an agonizing portrait of individual naivete gone sour, a sort of objective correlative of our government's experience. Dispatches by Michael Herr reveals a lot about Michael Herr and something about the nature of wartime journalism, but little about the war itself...
City Streets, Sewers and Subways. Old age is catching up with many American cities. Cleveland's antiquated sewer system overflows during heavy rains. Says City Budget Director Phillip Allen: "We always have flooded basements throughout Cleveland. It wouldn't be so bad if it were just storm water, but it's combined with sewage water." In St. Louis, about 15% of the water supply leaks out of the city's aged pipes. In Newark, 90% of the streets need patching, resurfacing or complete reconstruction...