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Ramos, a former bookkeeper, told a Middlesex County Superior Court jury of 11 women and two men that she needed medical help when she first approached Bernstein, who was appointed her physician under the health plan...
...difficulties of separating them were clear from X rays. The boys had separate brains, but they shared a major vein in the back of the head called the sagittal superior sinus, a large canal through which blood flows toward the heart. Past efforts to separate similarly joined twins had resulted in either death or brain damage. Indeed, one such attempt by doctors in Chicago in 1981 ended tragically with both children bleeding to death on the operating table. Theresia, 20, and Josef Binder, 36, searched in their own country and the U.S. for a medical team that could offer their...
...consider the resulting laws to be insidious or unwise. For example, though Bork has argued that the court did not have the constitutional justification to strike down the anticontraceptive law in the Griswold case, he has spoken disparagingly of the statute itself. "Even if we assume that courts have superior capacities for dealing with matters of principle," he writes, "it does not follow that courts have the right to impose more principle upon us than our elected representatives give...
...issue of Asian-American student admission been more bitterly fought than at Berkeley. Activist groups charge that if acceptances were based purely on merit, there would be even more Asian-American students than the 5,610 who now make up a quarter of the 22,000 undergraduates. Alameda County Superior Court Judge Ken M. Kawaichi, co-chairman of the Asian American Task Force on University Admissions, assails Berkeley's "good old boy" administrators. "The campus they envision is mostly white, mostly upper middle class with limited numbers of blacks, Hispanics and Asians," says Kawaichi. "One day they looked around...
...mortality declines two centuries ago, there have been no shortages of humans, only perceived shortages of particular kinds of humans." And Peter Morrison, population research director for the Rand Corp., asserts that probirth programs for the largely white Western middle class "label a group as being inferior or superior. It's what prejudice is all about...