Word: subjectively
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...duty to die," his forthrightness seemed eccentric. In his writing, the late Dr. Rene Dubos urged more emphasis on the quality rather than the length of life, but his eloquence failed to generate sustained debate. Callahan, arguably the nation's leading medical ethicist, means to make discussion of the subject inescapable. For 18 years, as director of the Hastings Center in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., he has grappled with the tide of problems arising from biomedical advances. In a new book called Setting Limits (Simon & Schuster; $18.95), he makes his hard case with a care that is feeling but unflinching...
...puts artificial reproduction and genetics at the top of his list of emerging concerns. The possibility of selecting a child's sex, he contends, has "profound social implications." Advances in genetic screening that identifies whether the unborn individual will be subject to heart disease or cancer or schizophrenia raise a new round of issues. Would altering the defective genes in utero be ethically permissible, given the risk of unforeseen results for future generations? The moral dilemmas spawned by the high-tech world of biomedicine -- closer to salvation or Pandora's box? -- are sufficient to keep Callahan and his Hastings associates...
...which, through his top aides, he was "putting everything on the table with the exception of Social Security, with no other preconditions." Including a tax increase? Though he could not quite bring himself to pronounce those words, Reagan clearly indicated that, well, yes, he would at least discuss the subject. Reminded again and again by reporters of his many previous pledges to veto anything resembling a tax increase, he refused to repeat any such pledge; he merely said both spending and taxes should be kept "as low as possible...
Deaver's medical problems could become the subject of a legal dispute this week when the former White House assistant goes on trial in U.S. district court on five charges of perjury. Lawyers spent much of last week interviewing prospective jurors about their attitudes toward alcohol, indicating that the defense may attempt to use Deaver's addiction to exonerate...
...Gorbachev visit. Indeed, there had been hope that Reagan might be able to open the session -- his first in the White House in seven months -- by announcing that the summit had finally been scheduled. But Shultz had not yet completed his talks; when a reporter raised the subject, Reagan could merely state, "We don't have a word yet or a date yet." Then he went on to muse about how he would like the Soviet leader "to see a great deal of America." They might end up, he said, at his ranch near Santa Barbara. "I've thought...