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...infrastructure of a modern state on Oman's tribal society. In 1985, celebrating 15 years on the throne, Qaboos hosted a meeting of Arab rulers at the Al Bustan Palace Hotel, a marble-and-tile monument to Arabian opulence on a mountain-ringed bay near Muscat. It was a sort of coming-out party, signaling the end of Oman's virtual isolation from the outside world...
...only families that must decide. Doctors are wondering when, in an era of untamed technology, they should stand back and let their patients die -- or even help death along. Economists are calculating a sort of social triage: at a time when infant mortality is scandalously high and public health - care is a shambles, does it make sense for taxpayers to spend tens of thousands of dollars a year to keep each unconscious patient alive? Lawmakers are struggling with how to draft laws carefully enough to protect life while respecting individual choice. Theologians are debating how sacred life...
...grande one. That is, it was in the works before either Lowe or Spader achieved his new level of notoriety, so its makers cannot be accused of cashing in on the former's troubles or the latter's triumph. It is, moreover, good looking in a chic, languid sort of way, and it is written with occasional wit and social awareness. Indeed, its literary credentials are, if anything, rather too impeccable: Spader's character, Michael, an analyst in an investment firm, is Faust at a computer terminal; Lowe's Alex, a sociopath of no fixed address, is Satan with...
Living wills usually serve two purposes: they describe what sort of physical condition is intended to trigger the document's provisions and list the types of treatment the person wishes to avoid. Experts recommend making the language as specific as possible, although there are no absolute guarantees. "You never know what a local prosecutor or doctor may do," says Giles Scofield, legal-services director of Concern for Dying. "There's no language that will always be perfect...
Elvis Presley's Graceland in Memphis has become a shrine, a sort of tackiness made sacred. Mount Sinai, where God came to earth, is about to become a sacred place made tacky...