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...does present ethical issues. Volunteers who receive the treatment for depression smile on the operating table as the voltage is turned up and frown as it's turned down, raising questions about just whose mind it is anyway. Advocates argue that when your life has come to ruin as a result of disability, you're concerned less with such philosophical questions than with simply feeling better. Trickier are the cases of brain-damaged patients on whom the operation is, by definition, performed without consent. Dr. Joseph Fins, medical ethicist at Weill Cornell and a principal researcher on the recent study...
...time midsummer rolled around, the negative stories had crowded out substantive ones about Edwards' proposals, so most primary voters didn't know he had been leading the debate on domestic policy. He was the first to present a credible plan for universal health care. (Obama later offered a similar but less expensive plan that leaves some 15 million uninsured; Clinton still hasn't revealed hers.) He came up with a Gore-approved policy to combat global warming and a well-conceived antipoverty package, including a $1 billion fund to help people facing mortgage foreclosure. (Clinton later proposed a similar fund...
...June, members of the Annapolis group, an association of liberal arts colleges, decided to develop an alternate format to present information about colleges to students in the college search process...
...alliance would probably pursue policies not radically different from those of the present government. Musharraf would presumably supervise military and security matters, including the fight against militant groups, while Bhutto might be responsible for more political matters, like reforming the thousands of madrasahs, or religious schools, around the country...
...first half of 1948, Teresa took a basic medical course before launching herself alone onto the streets of Calcutta. She wrote, "My soul at present is in perfect peace and joy." Kolodiejchuk includes her moving description of her first day on the job: "The old man lying on the street - not wanted - all alone just sick and dying - I gave him carborsone and water to drink and the old Man - was so strangely grateful ... Then we went to Taltala Bazaar, and there was a very poor woman dying I think of starvation more than TB ... I gave her something which...