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Many family businesses are passed down through a combination of promissory notes and gifting. This worked best for Karen Caplan, 44, president and CEO of Frieda's, a Los Alamitos, Calif., marketer and distributor of exotic fruits with more than $30 million in sales last year. Caplan and her sister Jackie Caplan Wiggins, 42, who is vice president, bought the 38-year-old business from their parents in 1990. Almost half the transfer was paid with a 10-year note, and the rest came through a one-time gifting of $600,000 from each parent after a company valuation. Karen...
That's a very reasonable concern. But if people who think like Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, have their way, we'll be able to sleep a little easier in our brave new world. Caplan advocates establishing some kind of confidentiality law that would prohibit unauthorized testing and the free exchange of genetic information - a safeguard that would ostensibly provide each of us with a modicum of privacy...
...Caplan's idea doesn't take root? Are we really responsible enough to understand the most intimate secrets of human life? We're just going to have to wait and see - an uncomfortable prospect, but perhaps exactly what we deserve. After all, now that the champagne has been drunk and the congratulations exchanged, it's a bit late in the game to be overcome by a fit of reflection...
Never let anyone, not even a close relative, pressure you into giving up an organ--no matter if you're healthy. "There's often the feeling that you're not a good friend, father, mother if you don't do this," says Arthur Caplan, director of the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Bioethics. Some transplant centers will invent a "medical problem" on behalf of those who are reluctant to donate but feel they...