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There are more pained voices than the book's subtitle suggests. A former Army nurse recalls wounded soldiers in a field hospital: "When they woke up, they thought they'd died. They'd say...'Where am I? Am I in heaven? Are you my mother?' See, they'd be starting...
The cautious optimism that has begun to surface at major cancer-treatment centers is not grounded in any hard calculus. Despite some gains, cancer death rates remain unacceptably high (see chart), and the disease will kill 554,740 people in the U.S. this year. Rather, the optimism stems from an...
Caustic inter-collegiate skirmishes aside, let's investigate the alleged "reasons" our fair school has slipped to such depths. (Or, if you prefer a less rational approach, prepare to intercept the trucks carrying the issue to Out-of-Town News this week with a sign reading, "The People's Republic...
In 1977, when the Arkansas attorney general was trying to decide whether to run for Governor or Senator, he began thinking about Morris. They had met a few months earlier, when the New Yorker was traveling the country pitching himself to politicians, fast-talking his way into their offices and...
TIME calls them "barely visible blobs of protein." The fertility clinic calls them "living cells." A Roman Catholic Cardinal calls for a "decent burial." The Vatican newspaper calls it "a prenatal massacre." The parents who created these embryos don't call to claim them. The whole situation calls for a...