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...School of Medicine: "The technological imperative obliterates the person altogether. It acts as if the person doesn't exist -- that she has no personality, no family, and that no one who loves her can make decisions about her." But other experts believe that advocates of self-determination often skip over a basic question in incompetent-patient cases. Asks University of Michigan law professor Yale Kamisar: "Whose rights are being fought for, Nancy Cruzan's or her parents? Whose preferences are being advanced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics: Whose Right to Die? | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

...books to brandy, the section provides a one-page guide to what is worth -- or not worth -- hearing, seeing and doing around the U.S. from week to week. Our critics raved about the program Night Music as "the best damn music show on television." But they warned watchers to skip the movie Wired in one terse comment: "The saddest thing about John Belushi's death might be this requiem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From the Publisher: Nov 13 1989 | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

Early in the '80s, the Mets were impossible to resist. They had a theme song that went, "The Mets are really socking the ball--they're hitting those homers, over the wall." They had perennial losing pitchers like Pete Falcone, Bob Apodaca and Skip Lockwood. They had young, exciting players with goofy grins and exotic names like Mookie Wilson and Hubie Brooks. They had Rusty Staub, the league's fattest pinch-hitter.(Staub was especially fun to have around. When your friend had to retrieve the ball from the bush you could yell, "Quick, you've got a shot...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: The Mets | 10/5/1989 | See Source »

Before I use every nonexistent positive from of a negative word known to man, I'd better get to the point. I want a new team. A team I could die for, and call Sportsphone for, and skip "60 Minutes" for if it went into...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: A Man in Search of a Football Team | 9/26/1989 | See Source »

Both Gicewicz and Collins decided to skip last semester and come back this fall for a final season of varsity football eligibility...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Hungry for One More Season on the Football Field | 9/15/1989 | See Source »

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