Word: tragic
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...decisions are never treated lightly. Hospital ethics committees confer with family members to establish proof of a patient's wishes. "Overwhelmingly, these cases are decided by consensus," says Dr. Joseph J. Fins, chief of the division of medical ethics at New York Weill Cornell Medical Center. "What's so tragic here [in Schiavo's case] is that you have a family divided against itself...
Depending on whom you ask, the experiment announced at a Texas medical conference last week was a potential breakthrough for infertile women, a tragic failure or a dangerous step closer to the nightmare scenario of human cloning...
...first half of the 20th century, the term passing had an almost tragic poignancy. It meant not only secretly renouncing one's race but becoming a "real" American--enjoying the privileges of equality and anonymity, back when one-tenth of all citizens were denied true citizenship. If America was a club that admitted whites only, why shouldn't those who looked as if they belonged in the club try to join it? As America took small steps toward racial maturity, passing should have passed away. It did not; Roth's book was triggered by the news that the late...
...nutrition as to taste? You asserted that the food scientists are responding "to the needs of 280 million people all trying to eat ... in the most enjoyable, affordable and nutritious way possible." You are confusing needs with desires. To think of the new food products as nutritious is a tragic mistake. And affordable? No way! Even "enjoyable" is open to question. Perhaps more welcome to our tongues would be the magic of a tart McIntosh apple instead of a piece of candy. If we cared more about people who are starving than about our food fads, that would truly...
...parking lots because he’s popping pills. But there seems to be a trend among those who tout themselves as the personification of virtue—as we’ve seen with fallen televangelists who bamboozle millions into believing in their integrity only to suffer a tragic downfall when their indiscretions are exposed. Rush, like innumerable smooth-talking right wingers before him, is full...