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...episode of "Medical Center," but such situations have led to a real-life drama currently playing in the courts and hospitals of Massachusetts. Due to recent technological and medical advances that enable doctors to keep patients on the brink of death alive and to treat with limited success the previously incurable, doctors and lawyers are for the first time tackling the question, "Who, if anyone, should pull the plug?" In the case of an incompetent patient--such as the very young, the unconscious, or the mentally retarded--who should take on the awesome responsibility of deciding whether to withdraw...
...executive committee formula is one that has been used with success settling similar problems in departments." Keller said. She cited actions in the Astronomy and Visual and Environmental Studies Departments over the past ten years as examples...
While the Triple Crown was being fought out in the U.S., a talented young man who knows all about the demands and rewards of the top American races for three-year-olds was riding to new success 3,000 miles away. Jockey Steve Cauthen, still only 19 and last year's Triple Crown winner with Affirmed, was finishing first consistently against the best riders in Europe...
...child of hard-working North Carolina farm people, Billy grew up so alarm ingly full of energy that his parents once took him to a doctor to see if he was nor mal. He was: an intense, passionate normality has been one of the reasons for his astonishing success. As an adolescent, he went dusting wildly over North Carolina back roads in his father's Plymouth, necked with girls until his lips were chapped and, after high school graduation, struck out for South Carolina as a drummer of Fuller Brushes...
...Chase the Game derives much of its immediacy from the life and language of men coming to painful maturity. Its power comes from the Ditter conclusion that skill on the playing field is not synonymous with character. There have been scores of books on the superstars of every sport; success Breeds fans. Failure has only a few aficionados, and Jordan is one of the finest. In Auden's phrase, he sings of human unsuccess, and in the song turns case his tories on the defeated into a kind of triumph...