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...category," says Arthur Caplan, who directs the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. "The heart is the most symbolic of organs. Had they moved a lung or a pancreas, it just wouldn't have the same emotional impact." But a child's heart? Surely no parent could bear such a burden. Unless, perhaps, as in the case of the Szubers, the only alternative was another death in the family...
...could be fatally humiliating to Castro but equally damaging to Clinton in Florida, an important re-election state. Having chided Castro for running a big prison, Clinton cannot very well tell him to keep the doors to the jail shut. But Floridians were adamant: they would not, could not bear the cost of absorbing a vast new population of exiles. Already blistered by criticism of his reversals on Haiti, Clinton needed a firm solution that would slow the flood of refugees but not ignore their suffering or antagonize the powerful Cuban-American community in Florida...
...spot. Foster is a producer of inescapable songs, especially those ultraromantic ballads that seem to blare out of every boom box on the beach. They are sung by various performers, from stars like Whitney Houston to the new group All-4-One, but the songs all bear the unmistakable Foster touch: the soaring vocals, the lush arrangements dripping with strings and keyboards, the crescendos built on crescendos. Whether the sound is timeless or just stuck in a time warp is a matter of taste. But it sure does sell -- and earn him hefty royalties. While rap and grunge grab...
When Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy attended the Superbowl last December, he billed Uncle Sam $849 for expenses, according to an Associated Press investigation. Espy claimed he was on official business at the game because a half-time contest included a salute to Smokey Bear. Smokey's an Ag Department employee, of sorts...
...said, 'I'll give you $5,000 every time I pull the trigger,' " says Grosz. Other clients, lazier or more timid, are content to order up contract killings. The current black-market price for one ready-to-mount bighorn sheep can go as high as $10,000. Grizzly bears fetch $25,000. Eagles and some of the rarer butterflies bring $1,000 apiece. Meanwhile, despite the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, the principal wildlife-protection treaty, the global market in "medicinal" animal parts expands unabated. "The bear is like a walking bank account...