The hereafter debate and medical defintions
Editorial notes argue life and death are precise biological states with irreversibility, debunking near death and afterlife claims. It cites commercialism, advances in brain-based death criteria, and psychiatrists like Dr. Nathan Schnaper who describe out of body stories as psychological fantasies and amnesia after cardiac arrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Nathan Schnaper
Maryland Institute For Emergency Medicine
Capital and jobs puzzle from Paine Webber says savings drive growth
AP summarizes Paine Webber's view that job creation hinges on capital formation. It argues Americans save only 5 to 7 percent, versus higher rates abroad, and criticizes tax policy and excessive regulations that curb small business. The piece notes falling new public stock issues and aging facilities, urging more private investment and less punitive rules.
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John Cunniff
New York
Paine Webber
United States
West Germany
Japan
Academe
Washington Merry Go Round: mob ties to Medicaid exposed
Washington In past columns we warned of criminals aiming for the U S Treasury and siphoning federal funds for the sick and elderly. Mob figures linked to nursing homes hospitals and clinics allegedly skimmed hundreds of thousands from Medicaid with threats and extortion. A Bronx psychiatrist testified Pagano was a silent partner earning up to 25 percent of a welfare clinic’s net income as mobsters used violence and intimidation to force monthly payments and steer business to firms they controlled. The piece also covers Soviet efforts to disrupt peace talks, a looming arms-transfer scenario, and Marathon Oil antitrust scrutiny tied to a Louisiana coast superport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Anderson
Washington
U.S. Treasury
Meyer Lansky
Joe Colombo
New York City
Joseph Pagano
Vito Genovese
Bronx
Bill Halamandaris
Pagano
New York
Anwar Sadat
Kremlin
National Security Council
Somalia
Red Sea
Iran
Saudi Arabia
Bob Bergland
Carter
Mexico City
Mexico
Marathon Oil Company
Justice Department
Louisiana
Ford Administration
Antitrust
Donald Baker
Baker
Cleveland
Jones, Day, Reavis and Pogue
Marathon Oil
Today in history March 3 1978 highlights from past events
Key events include 1791 DC organization, 1845 Florida statehood, 1847 Bell birth, 1849 Interior Department creation, 1861 serf emancipation in Russia, 1944 U S planes over Berlin, 1967 Poland bars Nixon, ten years ago Liberian tanker split off Puerto Rico, five years ago POW repatriation to Hanoi, one year ago nuclear carrier funding defeated. Thought for today quotes Winston Churchill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federal District of Columbia
Florida
Alexander Graham Bell
Edinburgh
Scotland
Congress
Department of the Interior
U.S
Berlin
Poland
Richard Nixon
Warsaw
Puerto Rico
Hanoi
North Vietnam
Winston Churchill
Boom towns' hidden human cost in West energy boom
Sociologists warn Carter energy plan will inflate western towns as workers flood in. Crime and mental health problems surge. Craig Colorado and Sweetwater County Wyoming show dramatic spikes in crime, police calls, and mental health caseloads as populations double.
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Washington
NEA
West
Rocky Mountain
National Energy Plan
Rockies
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Stan L. Albrecht
Brigham Young University
Provo
Utah
William R. Freudenberg
Yale
Freudenburg
Craig
Colo
Albrecht
Sweetwater
Wyoming
Rock Springs
Chiag
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Ken Dulaney
the World Almanac
U.S. State
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Pennsylvania
Vermont
South Dakota
Mississippi
Pierre
Jackson
Boston
Harrisburg
Montpelier
Professor Dewey
Dewey Ey
Martha Angle and
Robert Walters
E.C
Pueblo
Colorado
Saheed
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