Word: treatment
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...need for such legal challenges, however, is a reminder that inequities remain, decisions can be reversed, and statutes can be repealed. "We are at the mercy of a Supreme Court that will interpret equality as it sees fit," says Friedan. Feminists feel the court opened the floodgates to unfair treatment of female students when in February 1984 the Justices $ defanged a law that could be used to stop all federal aid to a school if sex discrimination was shown in any of its education programs, including sports. Legislation that would effectively restore a broad application of the law is before...
Harsh, yes. But many see such treatment of hazardous AIDS carriers as justified. Explains Stanford Law Professor Thomas Grey: "It's the same as locking up someone who is going around stabbing people." Agrees Dr. David Cohn, a Denver public-health official: "When Patrick Henry said, 'Give me liberty or give me death,' he wasn't talking about AIDS." Still, it is now clear that the more the disease spreads, the more the civil liberties of its victims are likely to suffer. Necessarily, public well-being takes precedence over individual rights, notes Larry Gostin, Harvard professor of health...
...very different scene unfolds. A woman who is six months pregnant undergoes an abortion. Her decision to end the pregnancy so late most likely involves some kind of tragedy: the child she is carrying is seriously defective or perhaps she has learned that she has cancer and requires immediate treatment that would poison her child. Whatever the reason, the aborted fetus is just a few weeks younger than the preemie staffers are furiously working to save...
...special obligations. Because stations are licensed by the Government and use a scarce public resource -- the electromagnetic spectrum -- the Government, it was reasoned, has the power to require that they use that resource in the public interest. Other such obligations include the equal-time rule (which ensures the same treatment for all candidates running for public office) and the personal-attack rule (which guarantees that people attacked on the air have an opportunity to reply...
After two years, X rays showed that life-threatening plaque had started to melt away in 16.2% of the treated patients, vs. 2.4% in the control group. The results were so dramatic that some health professionals called for routine anticholesterol drug treatment after bypass surgery. Cardiologist Blankenhorn, who was one of the 162 subjects of the study, demurred: "Drugsalone are not enough. People are still going to have to change to a healthier life-style...