Word: abed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Unfortunately, as service-oriented publications are snatched up, some of the most incisive new voices in journalism may be lost. Abe Peck, chairman of the magazine group at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, complains that while "there are plenty of magazines that tell you what to wear, where to eat and how to shop," publications that offer a more provocative editorial edge may be an endangered resource. Many analysts feel this editorial quality is more important than most advertisers realize, because it delivers more attentive readers. Some of yesterday's faddiest publications, like Rolling Stone, built on precisely...
Many loving parents would not hesitate to sacrifice their own lives to save their child's. But should they create a new life to rescue an endangered son or daughter? A Los Angeles couple, Abe and Mary Ayala, has taken just such an unusual step. In April, Mary will give birth to a baby girl who was purposely conceived to serve as a bone-marrow donor for her ailing older sister. Anissa, 17, was found to have a virulent form of leukemia nearly two years ago, and her only hope is a transplant of compatible bone marrow that could allow...
...Chief among them: Is it right to conceive children expressly so that they can be donors? It is a dilemma that faces increasing numbers of parents today as researchers make possible more transplants of organs from living people. For the Ayalas, the drastic measure was a last resort. Neither Abe nor Mary has marrow that matches Anissa's. (Reason: her marrow has a mixture of genetic characteristics from both parents.) Nor does brother Airon, 19, have marrow that is compatible with his sister's. And a search for a suitable nonrelated donor has been fruitless to date, though the hunt...
...fall of 1988, Mary turned to her husband with a proposal: "What if we have another child?" In the roll of the genetic dice, the odds were only 1 in 4 that such a child would have the right tissue type. And there were other daunting obstacles. Abe, 44, would have to undergo an operation to reverse a vasectomy done 16 years earlier, and Mary faced becoming pregnant...
...experience parenthood, to have an heir, to ensure that a youngster is not an only child. "In a sense we all have children to use them," says bioethicist Michael Shapiro of the University of Southern California. And motives can be mixed. Mary Ayala has long wanted a third child. Abe points out that "if Anissa didn't survive, we'd have another child in the house to help us with our sense of loss." Human needs are so tangled that no one expects -- or wants -- to create rules setting forth acceptable reasons for having a child...