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The U.S. Supreme Court attempted to address these questions in its landmark Roe v. Wade decision of 1973. The court's solution rested on the concept of viability, defined as the time the fetus is "potentially able to live outside the mother's womb albeit with artificial aid." Until that...
Not yet anyway. Benshoof concedes that development of an artificial womb could change the picture. A handful of U.S. medical centers now use a constellation of devices that can assume some heart, lung, kidney and even digestive functions for full-term babies born with certain problems. Because the machines require...
In the past, though, he has managed. According to Professor of Psychology Stephen M. Kosslyn, who taught Sample "Brain Damage and the Mind," "If all the students were like him, I would love teaching more than anything. He was one of the rare students who would come up afterward and...
Already a consummate host famed for his megaparties, Malcolm Forbes, 67, last week managed to top even himself. The publishing tycoon pulled out all the stops at his 75-acre estate in Far Hills, N.J., for the 70th birthday of Forbes magazine, which sports the motto "Capitalist Tool." At dusk...
Such ruminations seem more at home in a novel of ideas than in a saga of outer space. Fiasco happens to be both. Lem's plot is full of derring-do, infinite vistas and cataclysmic explosions. Equally engaging are digressions from the action: disquisitions on the development of the computer...