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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...case of Nancy Cruzan, 32, a Missouri factory worker who has been in an irreversible vegetative state for six years. The court has been asked to decide whether there is a constitutional right of privacy broad enough to allow Cruzan's family to disconnect the feeding tubes that nourish her, and thereby to let her die. An alliance of disability-rights activists and antiabortion groups has already begun to clash with patients' advocates and civil libertarians in what promises to be a bitter battle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics: Death Wish | 9/18/1989 | See Source »

SECRETARY Bennett, however, believes that the way to prepare this country's youth for the future is to focus them on their own past. Bennett's concepts would nourish isolationism in American students, creating a inherent bias towards Western thought and an ignorance of other cultures. Unfortunately, his position as Secretary of Education provides a podium for his reactionary plans regarding higher learning, where Bennett displays the two distinguishing trademarks of his time in office: abject denial of facts and paranoid political conservatism...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Doctoroff, | Title: Bennett Against the World | 5/13/1988 | See Source »

...plane flies just 15 ft. above the ocean waves, even a second's pause would result in a quick dunking. To keep the human engine from sputtering, Nadel, with the Shaklee vitamin company, developed a lemon-flavored cocktail of energy-rich glucose, water and a blend of salts to nourish the pilot throughout the flight. In addition, Daedalus' team of five pilot-athletes staggered their training schedules, each of them bicycling an average of 450 miles a week so that one of them would be in peak physical form whenever the go-ahead for the flight came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: On The Wings of Mythology | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

...early '80s many of the young adopted the oldest American President, Ronald Reagan, as a kind of hero -- not a moral or political hero exactly, but rather a sort of hero of attitude, not a leader so much as a prince of nonchalance. That sort of hero does not nourish much, or perform the hero's function of inspiring people to be better, to do better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1968 Like a knife blade, the year severed past from future | 1/11/1988 | See Source »

...situation in Ethiopia is not yet as bad as it was two years ago, when hundreds died daily of hunger and disease in mass feeding camps. As of last week there was enough food to last for a month and enough promised in the international aid pipeline to nourish the country through April. While thousands of peasants have been temporarily uprooted from their villages, they have learned the lesson of 1984-85 and have gone in search of food before they are too weak to travel. U.N. officials say that for the moment there are no permanent feeding camps, where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Famine Hunger stalks Ethiopia once again - and aid groups fear the worst | 12/21/1987 | See Source »

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