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Massachusetts Gov. A. Paul Cellucci quickly took advantage of the charged atmosphere to propose two changes to the judicial system. He first vowed to renew a push for the state to adopt strict sentencing guidelines. Cellucci then said that he would file a bill to give prosecutors, as well as defendants, the right to appeal sentences. Both of these proposals would hurt the justice system more than they would help...
...inventors made sure that early on the White House had running water, indoor plumbing, electric lights, central heating, telephones--even some crude air conditioning way back in 1881 to soothe the dying President James Garfield. Teddy Roosevelt, for all his progressive nature, was too fond of horses to adopt the automobile, though he was the first President to fly in an airplane. Right up to the end of his term in 1907, he insisted on horse-drawn carriages ("Roosevelts are horse people"), although the streets of Washington by then echoed with the growl of gasoline engines...
Cities can adopt some of the changes under way in Missoula, Mont., where a project called the Quality of Life's End is educating local doctors, lawyers, clergy members and students about what it means to die well. For example, both of Missoula's hospitals now treat pain as a fifth vital sign, ensuring that medical staff will take it seriously. Recently the project contacted Missoula's lawyers to begin teaching them to write better advance directives. And project volunteer Gary Stein incorporates end-of-life issues into the high school psychology course he teaches...
Second, both sides must work to streamline the system for adoption in the United States. There are families who have the courage and resources, financial and emotional, to open their homes to the children others do not want. We should work to encourage these families at every step of the way, from shortening waiting time to rewarding parents who adopt with health insurance and tax breaks...
...arms," she says. She remembers talking to a student one day when her mind suddenly went blank. "I was so tired," she says. "I was an emotional wreck." Things are smoother now that Imani is nearly four and relatives are nearby to pitch in; indeed, Brennetta has applied to adopt a second child...