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These two stories, with their radically different outcomes, illustrate both the enormous potential and the terrible risks of experimental surgery. They also reflect the special status accorded surgeons. Had either doctor been touting a new medicine instead of a new type of operation, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration would have insisted on research trials, first on laboratory animals and then on human volunteers, before the surgery could be tried on large numbers of patients...
Various intellectual currents reflect this shortage of civility in modern civilization. The "communitarian" movement, lately championed by Democratic and Republican leaders alike, aims to restore a sense of social kinship, and thus of moral responsibility. And various scholars and politicians (including Putnam) are now bemoaning the shrinkage of civil society, that realm of community groups, from the Boy Scouts to the Rotary Club, that once not only kept America shipshape but met deep social needs...
...emphasizes the case was a class action decision, insuring the protection of abortion rights for a country of women clamoring for change in which McCorvey was simply a random representative. As a result, Weddington attests that whatever McCorvey decides in her personal, professional and political life does not reflect the views of most women who have benefited from the ruling, and should be ignored...
They stumbled toward the riverbanks, some crying out, "Mizu, mizu!" (Water, water); the temperature and their injuries had left them severely dehydrated. Because light colors reflect heat and dark ones absorb it, some bomb victims had the images of their clothing tattooed on their flesh: the pattern of a kimono on a woman's back, the unburned swath left by a sash around the waist of an otherwise charred man. "Big black flies appeared and tried to lay eggs on human flesh," says survivor Michiko Watanabe, now 65. "The injured were so weak that they couldn't brush away...
Smith says the additions reflect a desire of the registrar's office to "put in whatever's most easy." He said the course catalog simply includes the information that individual departments submit, but that departments are always encouraged to be as specific as possible in their course descriptions...