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Like their big brothers in business and government, microcomputers have a central processing unit to do the thinking, an input-output device (typically an electric typewriter connected to a video display screen) for giving instructions and receiving answers, and a memory for storing information. A microcomputer can easily perform such sedentary chores as keeping track of an investment portfolio, maintaining an up-to-date Christmas card list, collating menus or entertaining the kids with a vast Olympiad of electronic games, from TV tennis to Star Trek (destroy the Klingons before they capture the starship Enterprise). Other tasks-reporting on water...
This procedure, allowing terminal burn patients to choose death, in effect, sooner rather than later, has been in use at the Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center's burn unit for two years. During that time, 21 of 24 patients diagnosed as "having injury without precedent of survival" have chosen ordinary medical care and an earlier death. The other three - all men characterized by hospital personnel as "take charge types" in their 50s or 60s - also died; the longest survivor lived seven days...
...allowing the patient - and not relatives - to decide is feasible in massive burn cases because the victim's nerve endings are anesthetized by the injury, leaving him lucid and free of pain for the first several hours. In fact, says Dr. Bruce Zawacki, 42, head of the burn unit, relatives have been "overwhelmingly relieved" that the burden of decision making is taken off their shoulders. Says Zawacki: "In the long run it is better for our mental health and the patients' mental health to lay the cards on the table." Part of the policy is increased attention...
...separating the man from the myth," he says. Far from watching the set every waking hour, he says, "I look at very little TV at home, unless I have to or unless a cassette comes in and it is an emergency." Yes, he admits, there is a three-TV unit in his new apartment overlooking Central Park, but it has not even been hooked up yet. Really, he says, his family?Cathy, to whom he has been married for six years, and his children, Melissa, 5, and William, 8 months?are far more important to him than...
Romans still point out the narrow street not far from the Trevi Fountain where, in March 1944, a partisan bomb attack wiped out a 33-man Waffen-SS unit. Kappler, then an SS colonel acting as police chief of the German occupation force in Rome, received orders from Berlin to execute ten times as many hostages in reprisal. Within 36 hours, German troops had rounded up several truckloads of Italian civilians. The Italians were taken to the ancient Ardeatine Caves three miles south of Rome and there were shot dead. The precise toll was 335-five more than Kappler...