Ethics Split Over Alcoholics Getting Liver Transplants
Medical ethicists debate whether alcoholics should qualify for liver transplants amid organ shortages. They argue for prioritizing those with non alcohol related disease and higher survival chances, while noting alcoholism is chronic but treatable and not a moral failing. The discussion appears in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Alvin H. Moss
Center For Health Ethics and Law
West Virginia University
Mark Siegler
Center For Clinical Medical Ethics
University of Chicago
Carl Cohen
Transplant and Health Policy Center
Ann Arbor
Mich
Journal of the American Medical Assn
Cohen
U.S
Moss
United Network For
Richmond
Big rezoning vote eyed for 61 acres in Lawrence
Local officials weigh a major land use decision to rezone 61 acres at Iowa Street and Armstrong Road for a regional shopping mall. Jacobs of Cleveland faces likely denial and possible lawsuit. landowners challenge the commission’s right to act amid drought driven brush fires and high winds. Kansas University students plan spring break as town braces for the controversy.
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Lawrence
Jacobs
Wisconsin
Cleveland
Iowa Street
Armstrong Road
Kansas University
Primitive thinking blocks Middle East progress, US calls for reform
A foreign student joke about moving from the ninth to the fifteenth century in thirty years underlines the clash of primitive philosophies with peaceful world aims. The piece urges US leadership to push for humanity and toleration, urging action to end violence, support Israel carefully, and promote a two-state solution while discouraging extremism across the region. It notes UN restraint, Iran’s leverage, and hopes a reformist leadership may emerge in Arab states.
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Saudi Arabia
Yemen
Oman
Qatar
Kuwait
United States
Congress
George Bush
Saddam Hussein
Yitzhak Shamir
Iran
Salman Rushdie
Middle East
Saddam
American Congress
Israel
PLO
Yasser Arafat
Syria
Islam
Muammar Gadafi
Libya
United Nations Security
Iraq
Satan
Romantic notions and the myth of romance in America
The writer recalls a wedding anniversary after Arthur Murray's death and muses on how romance shaped American culture. He recalls his wife teaching dance, their failed attempts to dance, and how TV features and Tin Pan Alley fueled the romance myth. He questions whether romance was a consumerist construct and notes how later generations shifted away from it, ending with a wry self-deprecating remark about still not dancing.
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Lawrence Journal
Lawrence
Massachusetts Street
Arthur Murray
Washington Post
Murray
America
Strauss
Letters to the Editor Highlight City Priorities in Lawrence
In Lawrence a prosperous image masks hardships with one in five Douglas County residents below the poverty line. Project Acceptance members report homelessness, medical costs, and stigma, while Sal Val Army Safe House prospects worsen. Officials chase road funding amid human needs, raising ethical growth concerns. Bill Simons cites housing and hunger issues. Special memory notes Gary Samuels Rainbow Classic at Haskell in his honor.
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Lawrence
Kansas
Douglas County
Project Acceptance
Salvation Army
Washington, D.C
Washington
Bill Simons
Haskell Indian Junior College
Gary Samuels
Gary
Gary Scott
Haskell
Serena West
1603 W
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