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...persistent vegetative state" and that her chances of recovery are remote. Even so, tests show slight brain activity, which means, said the judge, Karen is "not brain dead by present known medical criteria." Under common law, he went on, neither "the fact that the victim is on the threshold of death" nor "humanitarian motives" can justify taking life. Dismissing as mere "semantics" such questions as whether pulling the plug would be an act of commission or omission, he ruled that the move "would result in the taking of the life of Karen Quinlan when the law of the state indicates...
...threshold of its third century, America is afflicted by a "drift from dynamism," which threatens to allow the nation's global leadership to slip into "less sophisticated hands, at a perilous moment." So concludes the Economist's deputy editor, Norman Macrae. A longtime expert on world economics and political affairs, Macrae, 52, first gained attention in the U.S. in 1969 by writing a penetrating survey on the American dilemmas of race and poverty. Now he has produced a provocative if discursive report suggesting that the U.S. may be at the close of its industrial empire. He argues persuasively...
Harvard's President Derek Bok urges the "education of a new profession" for public service, with "more sophisticated skills in policy analysis and administration." Bok suggests that we are approaching "the threshold of a new era of scarcity and restraint in which the deficiencies of Government cannot be papered over by constantly rising levels of prosperity...
...makers of Wizard, the Bally Company, have carried pinball over the threshold of a new age. In pinball's infancy, the game's mechanisms were exceedingly simple, even one dimensional. For most machines the surface was the only reality. A given bumper, a given roll-over had a certain, fixed value, and one's score was no more or less than the sum of those values. It was not long, however, before a second dimension was introduced, utterly transforming a phenomenon that had been purely linear: certain targets or combinations of targets were designed to change the schedule of reward...
...else in the University has been touched by the recession and the way President Bok's administration has dealt with it. "It's hard for us in administrative positions to deal with," he says. "Before, we used to know everybody. We knew how to deal with them. Our pain threshold is very low on economic matters. We hurt quickly. After thirteen years of benign neglect there's some positive, detailed interference in ways there wasn't before...