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...likely to be raised by a single parent. But this is true for 1 in 4 children, and it has become an accepted medical practice to help widows become pregnant through artificial insemination with the late husband's sperm. Those who feel that having a baby is a basic human right argue that this couple behaved in an especially ethical way by going to such effort and expense to ensure that their children would be born free of the disease. In this sense the case is comparable to that of a woman with cancer who forgoes chemotherapy in the hope...
...vintage chairs at a flea market outside Paris in 1994. But they were too small for 1990s American legs. When they approached leather wholesalers with their order, Gold and Williams found that American companies were not prepared for them: they could buy white leather or teal leather, but not basic brown. What's more, the key to the chairs was their age, their power to evoke the cigar-laden atmosphere of a bygone era, so the leather had to look old. After a long search, Gold found a factory in the Netherlands with a process for distressing leather to make...
...eastern European lady who swipes my meal card” do not count. This task should be an easy one—these are people whom we see at least once a day and yet many of us would be unable to meet this basic challenge...
...basic objective is the same, but the approach changes every year with a change in leadership,” he says...
...executive branch need not publicize plans for continuing basic government services beyond a small number of key officials who would actually implement them. But it is vital that the executive branch work with Congress to develop a plan to reconstitute all branches of government in the wake of a catastrophic attack. This includes how a new Congress would be elected if the capitol were destroyed and how the Supreme Court would be selected if a number of the justices were killed. In the case of a nuclear attack on Washington, Americans would be quite reasonably nervous about their safety...