1.   American medical ethics experts, who have watched similar lobbying crusades for alternative cancer treatments like laetrile, were appalled.

2.   And today we have adopted another characteristically American ethic that celebrates high thinking and plain living.

3.   Asians smoke heavily, and the recent American ethic of forbidding smoking in indoor public places has not set in Asia.

4.   But what about the American ethic of family values?

5.   Comprehending American ethics is a puzzle.

6.   The right-to-die movement, long situated on the fringe of American public ethics, is suddenly mainstream.

7.   Since the American social ethic is rooted in Puritanism, I am inclined to think that John F. Kennedy was murdered because of Marilyn Monroe.