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...have examined the ethics of Dr. Jack Kevorkian's euthanasia campaign, the culture of violence in America and the anguished battle over Baby Jessica. "Politics and science and business often deal with complex issues," says Chua-Eoan. "I prefer stories that focus on human lives and emotions. They are simpler and yet more enigmatic...
...Rockies' new ethos manages to combine the yearning for a simpler, rooted, front-porch way of life with the urban-bred, high-tech worldliness of computers and modems. When the San Francisco earthquake struck almost four years ago, computer writer T.C. Doyle, 30, and his wife Naomi, 29, picked up and moved to scenic -- and relatively sophisticated and pricey -- Park City, Utah. "We wanted a smaller town that was on the upswing," says Doyle. From there he now sends stories almost daily to his employer, Computer Reseller News, in Manhasset, New York. Bruce Tipple, 48, moved to the same mining...
...other things well too, notably in the scene in which, as he is interrogated by the police, he comes to realize that he is their chief suspect. Grief, outrage, incomprehension, terror -- what a rich mixture of emotions he registers in a matter of seconds. Jones may have a somewhat simpler line to play in the movie, but he is a marvelously incisive actor, and he brings his character right up to the edge of the demonic without falling into the psychotic abyss. He is playing the role of a man playing a role -- tough omnicompetence -- and the little flickers...
...bill. Many corporate plans seek to steer patients to physicians who join a health-maintenance organization (HMO) or so- called preferred-provider organization (PPO) by cutting reimbursements to employees who insist on consulting "outside" doctors. But this is supposed to be offset by other benefits: fewer and simpler (or maybe no) maddening reimbursement-claim forms to fill out, to cite one. To the uninsured, the reforms provide a chance to buy policies now unavailable. Many states, for example, are sharply restricting the ability of insurance companies to turn down applicants because of a "pre-existing condition" (insurance jargon meaning they...
...Etienne-Emile Baulieu, the inventor of RU 486, and his French colleagues describe the successful tests of the no-injection method in the New England Journal of Medicine. "This new regimen," they conclude, "is simpler and potentially allows greater privacy than any other abortion method." In a tough accompanying editorial, the Journal brands efforts to block use of the drug in the U.S. a "disgrace...