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Arthur Caplan comments that although nonsmokers should not have to endure the byproducts of other people's vice, it does not seem fair to tell those who have smoked for 40 years or more, or those whose only pleasure while residing in an institution is a smoke, to go stand in the cold

William E. Seidelman and Arthur L. Caplan say that it is important for East and West Germany to pay homage to the people slain in Nazi concentration camps in World War II

The prospect of a free, democratic and reunified Germany represents a triumphant moment for those who treasure democracy. A reunified Germany also brings to mind painful, tragic memories of a unified Germany that was totalitarian, fascist and racist-a nation responsible for the deaths of tens of millions. Optimism about Germany's future depends in large measure on Germany's willingness to fully acknowledge its tragic past. The West German government is now facing a stern test of its willingness to confront the nightmares of the past to reassure the world about its dreams for the future

THE prospect of a free, democratic and reunified Germany represents a triumphant moment for those who treasure democracy. A reunified Germany also brings to mind painful, tragic memories of a unified Germany that was totalitarian, fascist and racist - a nation responsible for the deaths of tens of millions. Optimism about Germany's future depends in large measure on Germany's willingness to fully acknowledge its tragic past. The West German government is now facing a stern test of its willingness to confront the nightmares of the past to reassure the world about its dreams for the future

The prospect of a free, democratic and reunified Germany represents a triumphant moment for those who treasure democracy. A reunified Germany also brings to mind painful, tragic memories of a unified Germany that was totalitarian, fascist and racist - a nation responsible for the deaths of tens of millions

MINNEAPOLIS - Sometime on June 4, Jack Kevorkian, a retired pathologist and self-promoting, self-styled free-thinker, drove a 54-year-old Portland, Ore., woman, Janet Adkins, in his old VW van out to a trailer park on the outskirts of Detroit. He says he attached her arm to his homemade euthanasia machine and monitored her heartbeat while she used it to kill herself. Kevorkian says he hopes Janet Adkins's death will force the issue of euthanasia into the public spotlight. Incredibly, it is doing that

Sometime June 4, Dr. Jack Kevorkian, a retired pathologist and self-promoting, self-styled free-thinker, drove a 54-year-old Portland, Ore., woman, Janet Adkins, in his old VW van out to a trailer park on the outskirts of Detroit. He says he attached her arm to his homemade euthanasia machine and monitored her heartbeat while she used it to kill herself. Kevorkian says he hopes Janet Adkins' death will force the issue of euthanasia into the public spotlight. Incredibly, it is doing that

Ordering those who fund science to fix gender discrimination by quota or by fiat won't work. Unless the biomedical community begins to take seriously the idea that women are just as normal as men, researchers will continue to be wary of using them as research subjects. And unless society debates and reaches consensus on ethical, legal and social policies that ought to govern involvement of pregnant women and women of child-bearing age in research, researchers will continue to steer away from these women

David Arnot, a judge in the Provincial Court in North Battleford, Sask., faced a difficult decision. Should the parents of a young girl be allowed to refuse to consent to the only medical intervention capable of saving her life? He ruled that Francois and Leslie Paulette had the right to refuse permission for a liver transplant to be performed on their daughter, K'aila

The judge seemed genuinely puzzled at the fact that the Oakland County, Mich., prosecutor's office sought to indict [Jack Kevorkian] for murder. If [Janet Adkins] committed suicide using Kevorkian's machine, then how could the doctor be guilty of murder?