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...reporter. Last week matters between the Wallaces deteriorated even further. After almost seven years of marriage, Cornelia packed up her belongings and announced that she could "no longer endure the vulgarity, threats and abuse." No formal action has yet been taken, but if the case goes to court, friends predict, the fur will...
...woman, admitted to the hospital with severe burns covering 95% of her body, asks a doctor if she is going to die. The physician replies carefully that although he cannot predict the future, survival in cases like hers is unprecedented. Does the woman want ordinary medical care or maximum-effort treatment, involving the use of life-prolonging machines? She chooses the ordinary care, consisting basically of painkillers and intravenous fluids, and dies quietly within hours...
Sociobiology is obviously valid: in the proper hands, it could predict much with alarming accuracy...
...onset of his presidency, Carter had selected energy as the test case by which he was willing to be judged. Now, only 130 days after he sent his first energy message to Congress, the results were rolling in faster and more favorably than almost anyone had dared to predict...
...Resolutions 242 and 338*as a basis for negotiations at Geneva, we would immediately commence plans to begin talks with the Palestinian leaders. I hope that Mr. Begin would accept that [the participation of some Palestinian leaders at Geneva]. But I don't have any way to predict what he would...