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Prosecutors from the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office are currently seeking a governor’s warrant, which requires the signatures of both the Mass. and N.Y. governors. The document would allow Jiggetts to be taken involuntarily to Massachusetts to face charges...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Extradition of Second Suspect Postponed | 8/4/2009 | See Source »

...that Sir Edward, while in failing health at age 85, was not dying. His eyesight was nearly gone, his hearing was weak, and he faced the prospect of life without his soulmate. But sorrow is not grounds for a doctor to assist in a suicide in most places that allow it. Nor is despair. The Netherlands permits euthanasia for those suffering intolerable pain; Oregon requires two doctors to confirm that the patient has less than six months to live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going Too Far with Assisted Suicide? | 8/3/2009 | See Source »

...allow for the removal of feeding tubes, the withdrawal of respirators, the replacement of aggressive treatment with palliative care; these can all be wise and merciful choices. But each step forward gets a little more slippery. Is there some point, visible in the cloudy moral distance, where the right to die becomes a duty to die? We don't need to set Grandma adrift on her ice floe; the pressures would be subtle, wrapped in the language of reason and romance - the bereaved widower who sees no reason to try to start over, the quadriplegic rugby player whose memories paralyze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going Too Far with Assisted Suicide? | 8/3/2009 | See Source »

...director of the U.S. Police Canine Association. For hundreds of years, humans have relied on the ability of dogs to distinguish scents to track prey, whether in the hunt for food or the search for a prison escapee. Bloodhounds are the recognized experts in supersensitivity to odors (some states allow scent evidence only from bloodhounds to be admitted). But even the best-trained scent dog - and Hess says the dogs require constant training - can make mistakes. "They are fallible, just like a person," says Charles Mesloh, a former canine officer and criminologist at Florida Gulf Coast University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dogs and the Scent of a Crime: Science or Shaky Evidence? | 8/3/2009 | See Source »

...American interest in the region - if only as a logistical hub for its war effort in Afghanistan - has driven Moscow to reassert itself in its backyard. After the U.S. secured its lease of an air base in Kyrgyzstan this month, Russia now intends to persuade the Kyrgyz government to allow the building of a second Russian base on its soil. Moscow sees its pervasive influence, both economic and political, in the region as a stabilizing force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia Moves to Boost its Role in Central Asia | 8/1/2009 | See Source »

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