Word: tanks
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Writing a book in 1968 on the morality of abortion -- he describes his stance as "conservative pro-choice" -- Callahan hit on the idea for a think tank on biomedical ethics. At the start, Callahan and Gaylin wondered if there would be enough moral issues to keep them busy. But since an initial project on the definition of death, Hastings researchers have dealt with organ transplants, artificial reproduction, surrogate motherhood (Callahan opposes it; some of his colleagues approve), AIDS testing and privacy, genetic engineering -- a never-ending list...
...progress. There was a school of thought, led by Carl Krebsbach, holding it was wrong the way you "build things up." It was perfectly true he had to miss the homecoming parade the time his daughter Carla was elected queen because he was digging up his parents' old septic tank and transporting it to the town dump. But, he said, it was just a . . . well, prevarication to say that hauling his load of "thirty years of family history" (nice phrase), he made a wrong turn and ran smack-dab into the National Guard tank that was Carla's float...
...sure, Carl," somebody said. "But I thought I saw you right around the corner there on McKinley when the tank came by. Or maybe smelled you, it was." Everybody laughed, and Judy Ingqvist, Pastor Dave's wife, spoke up, "It's called dramatic license. You improve on reality a little bit, in order to make a point. Like the parables in the Bible." There was an uncomfortable silence after that. Sounded like more of Dave's gosh-darn liberal doctrine to them. The Bible as literature is not a concept that has made much headway around here...
...just breaking over the Kuwaiti coast last Friday when the sleek missile came hurtling over the horizon. A crewman aboard the Sea Isle City, a Kuwaiti-owned tanker flying the U.S. flag, peered out the window of the bridge and saw it coming. "It looked like an oxygen tank and was smoking in the rear," he recalled later. "I told the captain 'Look!,' but it was too late." Seconds later the missile slammed into the ship. The warhead exploded in the officers' quarters of the vessel, which two days earlier had left behind its escort of U.S. warships...
...over the region is actually sealed off from the rest of the world by the strong winds that swirl around it, forming an all but impenetrable vortex. Says Cicerone: "Looking down at the South Pole is like watching fluid draining in a sink. It's like an isolated reactor tank. All kinds of mischief can occur...