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...Simple Prose Coefficient is, well, simple. A score of 9.9 indicates that a casual reader in an enclosed space where jet engines are being tested at 30- second intervals will catch virtually every nuance. (A score of 10 is impossible, reserved for the realm of television game shows or the news columns of USA Today...
...active help with a suicide, most patients will have to look elsewhere, well outside the realm of patient care. The spread of AIDS, for instance, has prompted some right-to-die activists to offer support and counseling about pills and occasionally lethal injections to people with the virus. Pierre Ludington, 44, executive director of the American Association of Physicians for Human Rights, has tested HIV-positive: he is stockpiling pills to use when he is ready to go. "I get angry that society wants me to suffer in a hospital," he says. "All I'm doing is feeding its coffers...
...minimum standard of protection under the law; that, unaware as she is, she has none of those qualities and prospects and experiences that give life its value. But such an argument would require setting some line above which lives are protected, below which they are not. "In the public realm we need general rules that everyone in an institutional setting will follow," says Harvard political philosopher Robert Nozick. "And any line they draw will look arbitrary." Instead the case is being argued on the grounds of liberty and privacy...
...relatively conservative field of endowment management, where each university's goal is primarily to maintain its economic standing, Harvard is seen as a large and sometimes brash investor. The University was among the first to become involved in the realm of venture capital and leveraged buyouts (LBO), both of which offer high yields on investment, but at a high risk...
...active in student government. But he says he wanted to study mathematics until spring semester of his junior year in high school, which he spent working for U.S. Rep. Tom Carper (D-Del.) The experience, he says, gave him the idea that people could make a difference in the realm of politics--an idea which he says he has tried to apply to the council...