Word: boying
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Those differing values inform the way women approach ethical dilemmas, argues Gilligan, who oversees Harvard's Project on the Psychology of Women and the Development of Girls. On same-sex teams in grade-school sports, she notes, when a boy is injured he is removed from the field and the game continues. Among girls, when a teammate is hurt the game stops...
...ruling meant that biological parents Crispina and Mark Calvert of Orange County, Calif., could finally fill out the birth certificate for their son Christopher Michael, which has remained blank since the boy's birth on Sept. 19. The surrogate mother, nurse Anna Johnson of Garden Grove, Calif., vowed to appeal all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, if necessary, to gain custody. "I'm in a state of deep mourning for my son," she said...
...most touching and poignant cases encountered by C.C.U. staffers concerned a gravely ill youth named Carmelo. The boy had a chronic renal condition, epilepsy and heart trouble that left him, at 14, just 43 in. tall and dependent on dialysis and a battery of medications. In addition, family troubles had rendered him angry and very lonely. For more than a year, the C.C.U. "doctors" spent time with the teenager, who rarely talked and refused to walk. Then one day comic magician Mark Mitton taught him a "mind-reading" card game, and Carmelo began to open up. The boy took great...
Within a few weeks, Carmelo had procured a new pair of tennis shoes and was on his feet as a $2-a-day C.C.U. performer. Immensely proud of his new occupation, the boy found the will to battle against mounting odds far longer than his doctors expected. His condition began deteriorating rapidly last winter, however; in July, two months after open-heart surgery, he died...
...visitor into one Babies Hospital room, Christensen was greeted with frantic wails. Coattails flying, he rushed out of the room. "That's my cue to leave," he explained. And as with any audience, some patients just refuse to see the humor. Christensen once paid a call on a teenage boy who was sitting by a window with his head lowered. He kept it down as Stubs conducted his exam. "I asked, 'Have you ever had your funny bone examined?' " Christensen recalls. "He said nothing. 'Does your nose ever turn red?' No answer. 'Are you ticklish?' And then, with his head...