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...indisputable" that the fetus, though dependent on the mother, is a separate organism, argued Leon Kass, a physician and professor of "bioethics" at Georgetown University. The fetus is also "human," at least in being "of human origin and in the process of becoming a human being -if nothing interferes." Paul Ramsey, professor of religion at Princeton University, says in his new book, The Ethics of Fetal Research (Yale University Press; $2.95), that the fetus is "live enough not to be dead, not yet mature enough to be an infant, yet a human being enough to deserve protection...
...federal prosecutor, Thomas F. McBride, did not entirely agree, arguing in court that Stans either "knew or acted in reckless disregard of the corporate origin" of the illegal funds he had raised. Federal Judge John Lewis Smith Jr. observed that this sounded much like "willfulness" to him. And while Stans may not have known how the illicit money was to be used, the loose treatment of huge amounts of cash helped make Watergate possible...
...hundreds of newspapers and magazines." The senior McWhirter may have been the most compulsive swallowers of information of his time--though Ross says he simply needed to "know the opposition"--but it is to such humble eccentricities that the authors of the Guinness Book of World Records trace its origin. From an early age the growing twins clipped useless information from the papers. "We kept lists of the largest buildings, that sort of thing." Ross says...
...these uncertain times it seems a waste of people power to deny any segment of society, by reason of race, sex, national origin, religious preference, or age, a channel of learning that does not depend on academic or economic performance or on familiar ties. Many of us pursuing later dreams need just as much encouragement and new experience as our juniors, and are often more open to new perspectives from unrelated younger friends than from our own recently-sprung progeny...
Indeed, The Street Fighter has little else to offer in the way of novelty, save perhaps for Sonny Chiba, a stepchild of Jack Palance and Magog. The movie is Japanese in origin, not Chinese, as is customary, and contains some comic relief in the person of Chiba's chuckleheaded pal, called Ratnose. Connoisseurs of the etiquette of male affection in films will notice the hero's farewell to the dying Ratnose-giving his nostrils a hearty but melancholy pull-with some guarded delight...