Word: chabot
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...either case, the environmental damage could be devastating. Says Warner Chabot, an official with the Washington-based Center for Marine Conservation: "If the oil enters the Pechora River and flows into the Barents Sea, it will destroy wetlands, salmon runs and breeding grounds for shorebirds." Conditions in the Arctic are so harsh that plants and animals already live on the edge of survival. It can take decades for a tree to grow just a few feet, and tire tracks in tundra vegetation may persist for up to 100 years...
...Steve Chabot wants to destroy families of the poor only because they are black and poor. Steve Chabot wants the death penalty to apply unequally to African-Americans. Chabot wants more African-Americans. But you shouldn't be surprised. Chabot's a Republican." --From a campaign advertisement run by Chabot's opponents. David Mann, as quoted yesterday by The New York Times. The advertisement was pulled after only one day on the radio. Mann's office claimed that he was unaware of the content of the ad until he heard it himself. The two are competing for an Ohio Congressional...
...Chabot consulted with seven colleagues, all of whom concurred that Bosscher's prognosis was dismal. Finally, Chabot agreed to help her. On Sept. 28, 1991, he handed Bosscher 20 sleeping pills and a toxic liquid mixture. Along with this deadly cocktail, she swallowed some medicine to prevent nausea. Then she lay down on her bed; a friend, Chabot and another doctor sat by her side. She kissed a portrait of her sons and, while Bach played on a tape recorder, peacefully drifted into death...
...sensation. Never before had a physician reported helping a depressed but otherwise healthy patient commit suicide. Of the estimated 2,300 cases of euthanasia and 400 cases of assisted suicide in Holland each year, virtually all involve patients suffering from a terminal illness or unbearable physical pain. Officials charged Chabot with violating the strict guidelines that permit doctors to help patients end their lives. Last week, in a landmark decision, the country's highest court ruled that though Chabot neglected to have another physician personally examine Bosscher, the psychiatrist would not be punished. "The ruling,"says Chabot's lawyer, Eugene...
Still, critics recognize that the issue is far tougher when it moves from abstract principles to the reality of a desperate patient."I do not know if I made the right choice," says Chabot,"but I believe I opted for the lesser of two evils...