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Thomas Friedman

A trade to help unborn children

Abortion |  Thomas Friedman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist, erupted in that newspaper’s Sunday Review section this week. He wrote, “In my world,

President Obama campaigning in Las Vegas

Signs and Wonders 10.01

Newsworthy |  The gap widens. The online prediction market Intrade now has Barack Obama’s chances of winning reelection at a whopping 76.9 percent. That’s up from the…

My brother's valuable life

My brother's valuable life

Life |  How does one measure whether a life was a success, or a failure? Some would measure it by recognition, that is, how many knew the person's name. For others,

No prison time for infanticide

Life |  When she was 19 years old, Katrina Effert secretly gave birth to a baby boy at her parents' home near Edmonton, Alberta. She then strangled the infant with…

An ailing doctor's decision to die

Life |  Euthanasia and the "right to die" continue to be hot topics of debate here and around the world, in religious and secular circles. I recently wrote about a…

Helping Mom starve to death

Helping Mom starve to death

Life |  Jane Gross, a retired reporter for The New York Times , has written a book about helping her mother die. And while euthanasia and assisted suicide are deeply…

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