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...discussion of the legal views of Attorney General Edwin Meese III (ESSAY, Aug. 11, 1986), he does not shrink from judgment. "I'm no holier-than-thou type," says Bowen, "but it has been my experience that the best guys I've known in life have had profound ethical concerns." At the top of his list of ethically minded people is his late mother, the prominent biographer Catherine Drinker Bowen, whose books chronicled the lives of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., President John Adams and 17th century English Legal Scholar and Judge Sir Edward Coke. Her well-known...
Much of the discussion about the beatification of Edith Stein, who became Sister Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, mistakenly focuses on her death at Auschwitz ((RELIGION, May 4)). The reason for her beatification has to do mostly with the quality of her life, her deep belief, profound intellect and inspired spirituality. Far from dishonoring her Jewish roots, the Roman Catholic Church now honors her faith and the triumph of her spirit through her tragic death at the hands of the Nazis...
...liberals sided with Michigan Lawyer Noel Keane, a pioneer in arranging surrogate agreements, who reportedly declared, "I think the church is a little out of touch with reality." The document has prompted serious debate, but so far it has moved the country no closer to a consensus on some profound ethical dilemmas. To whom, for example, does a child of surrogate birth really belong? Should a malformed fetus or infant (or any other patient in extremis) live or die? Who will make these decisions? And, more broadly, does ultimate moral authority lie with institutions such as church and state...
Chirac went on to a 4 1/2-hour exchange with Gorbachev. Afterward the French Premier praised the Soviet leader's plans for reforms. "What he has in mind is not just profound but rapid," said Chirac. "If it succeeds, and I hope it does, this experience of reform will change the world by the end of the century...
Elimination of heat caused by electrical resistance could have a profound effect on the design and performance of computers. In their efforts to produce smaller and faster computers, designers try to cram more and more circuits into chips and ever more chips into a tiny space. But they are limited in their scaling-down endeavors by heat; even the tiny currents in computer circuits generate enough cumulative heat to damage components if they are too tightly packed. Today's personal computers could not operate without vents or internal fans to dissipate the heat. Now, with practical superconducting circuitry...