The title became extinct when the last baron died.

When his head nodded, the fire blazed in the blackness of his dreams and sent suncolored streaks racing back and forth between his mind and soul.

It may be more than coincidence that following the mandarinization of impoundment, budget deficits have swollen inordinately, and we now find President Reagan and some of his congressional allies thinking about an item veto!

Despite the enormous breadth of bioethics, which ranges from interpersonal conflicts in medical practice, to ethical issues in animal and human subjects research, to policy formation in health care and the sciences, the bioethics field may be united by two common characteristics. First, bioethics is by nature a highly interdisciplinary activity. […] Secondly, biothics tends to be practiced today along the main modalities of the ethics of modernity.