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Last November, at the age of 43, Carol Beebe lost her left breast to cancer. But when she awoke from mastectomy surgery at New York City's Columbia- Presbyterian Medical Center and gazed down at her chest, nothing appeared to be missing. Beebe, an IBM employee from Point Pleasant, N.J., had chosen to have a reconstruction of her breast immediately following the mastectomy. In a single operation, plastic surgeons shaped a new breast from Beebe's own abdominal tissue, moving it into place minutes after the general surgeons had removed the diseased breast. The technique spares the patient the anguish...
...shouldering too much of the burden? Should the President proceed without approval from Congress? "It's not an antiwar movement so much as it is a process question, a sense that we should be debating the issues more before we act," says the Rev. William Phillippe of the Presbyterian Church's committee on social-witness policy...
Though he makes rounds in hospitals including Babies Hospital, a unit of New York City's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, Stubs is clearly no ordinary doctor. To those who witness his offbeat bedside manner, Stubs' true trade is obvious. He's a clown, a founding member of the one-ring Big Apple Circus. But to Stubs, a.k.a. Michael Christensen, working with young hospital patients is serious business...
Fortunately, the jury did not take Gates' argument at face value. In fact, they seem to have rejected his major claim. David Garsow, a white 24-year-old Presbyterian who headed the jury, stated that, "We agreed with what he said about this being like Archie Bunker making fun of racism. But Gates was saying that in order to understand the lyrics you had to be young and Black. We didn't buy that...
...When the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) was formed in 1983, ending a Civil War- era schism, one of the first tasks was to set forth its beliefs. That effort, complicated by the church's theological diversity, bore fruit last week as a national assembly of the 2.9 million-member denomination gave overwhelming approval to an 80-line "Brief Statement of Faith." After endorsement from regional units, it will join the ten other doctrinal statements that guide Presbyterians. The cleverly crafted text seems traditional enough to prevent the conservative opposition that killed a modernized creed in the Southern branch 14 years...