Word: treating
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...since the campaign has the Texan's good-cop, bad-cop routine been so polished -- and so evident. With a combination of money and moxie, the man who finished in third place last November has displayed a remarkable ability to stay in the headlines. Leaders of both parties treat him with deference as they calculate whether he can maintain what insiders call the "Perot 19" -- the 19% of the electorate that voted for him last year -- as a durable political force...
...simple, effective care. Every so often, the case of an anencephalic baby who is to be taken off life support gets publicity. This inevitably occasions the grotesque spectacle of right-to-life zealots trying to adopt the baby to prove that it is worth millions of dollars to treat such a hopeless case. To them, I say this: offer to pay for the care, too. They should save their abundant crocodile tears for the less glamorous, but all-too-common case of an uninsured youngster who must fear a simple sore throat or broken limb...
...thus witness a tragic irony: Gravely ill patients fight their doctors not to treat them, not to spend millions on a futile battle that offers them only the prospect of a Pyrrhic victory. Patients, understanding what blind dogma won't recognize, arm themselves with do-not-resuscitate orders and living wills...
...notion that animals might actually think poses a problem, it is an ethical one. The great philosophers, such as Descartes, used their belief that animals cannot think as a justification for arguing that they do not have moral rights. It is one thing to treat animals as mere resources if they are presumed to be little more than living robots, but it is entirely different if they are recognized as fellow sentient beings. Working out the moral implications makes a perfect puzzle for a large-brained, highly social species like...
...Regis & Kathie Lee. "Years ago," he says, "I wrote an article on the effects of divorce on pets. People said I was crazy. Now it's actively under research." Eckstein even attacks the conventional wisdom that dogs are gregarious and cats are aloof. "It all depends on how you treat them. Raise a kitten the way you would a puppy, and it will grow up to act like a dog." (Scientists like Bekoff insist that the behavioral differences are in fact innate and that they are relics of the animals' past: wolves, the ancestors of dogs, are pack animals, while...