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...optimistic. But the legislative history of aid-in-dying measures also gives them cause to be wary. An Oregon-type voter initiative failed by only 2 percentage points in Maine in 2001, and a similar statute was narrowly defeated in Hawaii in 2002. Recent legislation was tabled in Wisconsin, Wyoming and Arizona. But with two Academy Award--winning movies this year featuring themes of assisted suicide--Million Dollar Baby and The Sea Inside--momentum, or at least public awareness, is clearly on the rise...
...stay in. More than half the 60 credits the students must complete have to be in challenging honors-level courses. Honors students are offered free courses in Europe or at top-flight schools like Smith College. In addition, some 90 four-year schools, including Smith and the University of Wisconsin at Madison, have agreements with Miami Dade that, in some cases, guarantee its honors grads acceptance right into their junior classes. Therein lies a bonus benefit of the honors boom: as the Supreme Court has made it harder for university admissions offices to use minority quotas to diversify their student...
BASED ON INTERVIEWS WITH DR. JAMES BERNAT OF DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL, DR. JAMES CLEARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MEDICAL SCHOOL, DR. JOSEPH FINS OF WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY, DR. ROBERT LISAK OF WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DR. KEITH SILLER OF N.Y.U. MEDICAL CENTER
...that those choices are often made by consensus. Health-care professionals who frequently deal with families in those situations offer two broad pieces of advice. First, "Everybody needs to hear the same thing" about the patient's prognosis, says Bruce Ambuel, a psychologist at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. "Otherwise you have different people hearing different things from different specialists at different times, and it just sows the seeds of conflict." Second, family members should go on a fact-finding mission to get a sense of a patient's probable desires. "Talk to as many people as possible...
Over Thanksgiving weekend, Harvard’s defense could not keep up to par and gave up 11 goals in two games to WCHA opponents as the Crimson fell to No. 1 Minnesota 5-3 and No. 5 Wisconsin...