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...Others pinpoint the beginning of human life when the heart of the embryo begins beating, around the fourth week of pregnancy, or when the central nervous system has developed to the stage where simple reflexes are evident, around the sixth week. By the eighth week, the embryo is undergoing the transition to a fetus and is definitely recognizable as a human being-a stage that some defend as the beginning of human life. Says Dr. Maurice J. Mahoney of the Yale University School of Medicine: "For me, humanness requires that some process of development has taken place which gives...
Hats off to Paul Bloom for distributing $4 million to four charities [Feb. 23]. Our country should use more public servants who can pinpoint the problem, slash the red tape and accomplish a worthwhile deed even though the Government hierarchy is indignant and outraged at his action...
ANOTHER FACTOR in the senator's favor is that Connecticut will be a much tougher state than Idaho or South Dakota for Dolan to conquer with his hard-sell campaign. Dolan succeeds by recruiting the support of individual special interest groups--groups much more difficult to pinpoint among Connecticut's dense, and traditionally moderate population. "Is this the same Terry Dolan who was so interested in the election of Jim Buckley to the U.S. Senate in my state?" Weicker asks. Despite hundred of thousands of NCPAC dollars, Buckley, a former senator from New York, lost to Democrat Christopher Dodd...
...sentiments were not unique. The process of creating from scratch and then attempting to implement a blueprint for wresting control of a massive bureaucracy from the clutches of hostile (Carter) forces posed both political and logistical problems. For every department, agency and office an analogous transition team arose to pinpoint key issues for the incoming administration to tackle, and personnel to be discarded or retained. For three months, personnel director E. Pendleton James played keeper of the Book of Lists (and boxes of resumes), while a Council of Elders held intermittent Judgment Day caucuses. The result: a tiny trickle...
Aelion said he could not pinpoint the reason for Harvard's sluggishness, but added that many students have "a kind of 'tunnel vision'--college, grad school, job, with no interruptions...