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Also last week, Alfredo Gutierrez Marquez, the new Attorney General, shocked law enforcement officials at home and abroad when he suggested that the only way to fight cocaine trafficking was to legalize the drug and possibly negotiate with the cartel. "The fight against drug dealing is useless," Gutierrez asserted. "It's time we stopped playing the fool." Gutierrez's proposal reflects the desperation Colombian officials feel as the drug lords gain strength. More and more Colombian lawyers refuse judicial appointments, fearing they will become marked...
...rectangular bindings, multi-colored, multi-shaped, leaving the impression of geometrical shapes--blocks really--sitting on rows of sagging shelves that shrink into the distance down the wall. Kelly recalls instances when books lose their magic amid this anonymity, when their pages and ink disappear into solid volumes of useless weight...
...problem with anencephalics is starkly different: doctors frequently do not know when death has legally occurred. Conventional measures of brain death are useless. Ethicist Caplan suggests that doctors rely on an older standard: that death occurs when the infant's pulse and breathing have stopped. Thus anencephalics would be taken off the respirator at set intervals to see whether spontaneous breathing had ceased. When it stopped, the infants would be pronounced dead and their organs taken. The few medical centers like Loma Linda that handle anencephalic transplants currently follow similar protocols...
Surgeons in the U.S. implant about 100,000 new pacemakers each year, at an average cost of $12,000. Last week Cardiologist Allan Greenspan of Philadelphia's Albert Einstein Medical Center charged that the implantations are often useless. In an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine, he concluded that more than half the pacemaker operations he studied were either unnecessary or of questionable need. Concluded Greenspan: "Not all physicians who prescribe pacemakers know as much about the subject as they should...
...Would it be too much to ask for you guys, especially you, Eric, to give a few moments of consideration before you offend your audience without cause. Why bother offending us on such a useless issue...