Word: vetting
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...Dutch decision troubles ethicists. "Terminal illness at least gives you some line to draw," says Arthur Caplan, director of the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Bioethics. Critics are worried that Holland has pointed the way to "assisted suicide on demand."Can one say no to a despairing Vietnam vet or rape victim?"If you're worried about the slippery slope, this case is as far down as you can get," warns George Annas, health-law professor at Boston University...
Because running a college newspaper editorial page, in addition to making you the darling of compulsive letter writers everywhere and rendering you a bleary-eyed vet of intraextracurricular-activity politics, gives you sharpened vision and brilliant insight. Not to toot my own horn, but I now have what it takes to solve the great problems of our time...
...many Canadians point to differences between the two court systems. Brian Greenspan of the Canadian Council of Criminal Defense Lawyers observes that Canadian lawyers cannot vet prospective jurors as rigorously as U.S. attorneys, "so we tend to be more concerned about what people know...
...Jackson, a physician at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Tuskegee, Alabama. Last month, after running many tests on Kay and researching medical journals going as far back as World War I, Jackson determined that the soldier had been exposed to chemical agents. He was the first Gulf War vet to receive that diagnosis, despite similar complaints from thousands of ailing troops...
...first baseball memory that I can consciously remember was from the 1980 World Series. Tug McGraw, the Phillies closer, comes on in the ninth and strikes out some faceless Kansas City Royal to win the Series in Game Six, and the Vet goes crazy...