Word: illnesses
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Moved by ethical concerns, a number of former fur lovers have defected to the other side. Davida Terry, a Lincolnshire, Ill., advertising executive, has kept her eight fur coats hidden in a closet ever since a chiding by an animal- rights supporter caused her to have a change of heart. "How could anyone wear a fur coat?" she now says. "How these animals have to suffer!" Last week, as a gesture of support, Chicago secretary Kathi Hodowal turned over her eight-year-old mink coat to Trans-Species, which uses such donations to stage mock funerals with fur-filled coffins...
Sophomore Elizabeth Hansen, usually a defender, moved up to replace Lauren Messmore at center of the second line. Messmore missed last night's because she was ill. Without Hansen, Co-Captain Char Joslin, junior Sue Cullinane and sophomore Bev Stickles were left to weather the persistant attack of the Wildcats...
...killing or wounding nearly 1,000 people, most of them innocent people, in attacks around the world over the past 15 years. But last week there were reports that this ferocious dealer of death and destruction, Abu Nidal, 52, head of the Libyan-based Fatah Revolutionary Council, is ill and possibly dying in a hospital in the Libyan capital of Tripoli, his illness variously reported to be cancer and heart disease. Declared a Cairo-based official of the Palestine Liberation Organization, from which the terrorist leader broke away in 1973: "Abu Nidal is in a very tough...
...Supreme Court takes up the case of Nancy Cruzan and considers for the first time whether a family may stop the artificial sustenance of a helplessly ill and totally unaware patient...
Cases that involve the withdrawal of a feeding tube, as opposed to a respirator or heavy mechanical support, pose particular problems. The American Medical Association and many ethicists believe even artificial nutrition and hydration is a medical treatment that may be withdrawn from terminally ill or irreversibly comatose patients. But others disagree; to them, food and water, even through a tube, represents the necessities of life and constitutes basic care. Some experts also debate whether there is a clear or a blurred line between withholding nourishment and the next step, injecting death-inducing drugs. Many worry about a slippery slope...