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...divided over this issue. Doctors see firsthand the agony that confronts the terminally ill and the resources spent prolonging some lives that might be diverted to improving the lives of others. Many thus favor laws that make it easier for patients to reject aggressive medical care, and urge the stricken to make out living wills so that their wishes...
...high price in return. Many miners spend their lives crawling on their hands and knees in tunnels sometimes no higher than a yardstick, wading through mud and water, burrowing through unutterable darkness. Nearly every miner can name a friend or family member who has been killed, maimed or stricken with black lung disease. "You die quick or you die slow," says Hassell Butcher, chief of Logan County's tax department...
Some students stricken by seasonal maladies question this advice, however...
...among the first ashore. "Correspondents are supposed to be an intrepid lot," he wrote. Nevertheless, Chickering was well aware of the dangers of combat. In January 1945, while serving aboard the battleship New Mexico, he penned a humorous spoof titled "How to Be Unafraid in Warfare, Though Panic-Stricken," in which he poked fun at some of the risks of war. On Jan. 6, at 28, he was killed when a Japanese plane carrying a bomb crashed on the navigation bridge of the New Mexico...
Most of the outages were quickly corrected, but repairing confidence may take a while longer. After discounting sabotage or a computer virus, investigators focused on the common thread shared by the stricken areas * -- they all use a computerized super-operator dubbed Signaling System 7, which automatically chooses the most efficient route for each call...