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Jack Kevorkian -- a.k.a. Dr. Death -- may be back in business. Kevorkian, 62, a retired Michigan pathologist, gained national notoriety last year when he used his home-built suicide machine to help Alzheimer's patient Janet Adkins kill herself. Last week, two days after Oakland County Circuit Judge Alice Gilbert issued a court injunction barring Kevorkian from using the suicide machine, he announced that he had counseled a dentist with cancer who was (and likely still is) contemplating using a similar machine of his own. Said Kevorkian: "I'm just testing the limits of the injunction...
...remaining candidates, sources said, may include Stephen G. Breyer, chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit, University of Chicago Provost Gerhard Casper, Leroy E. Hood, a leading biology at the California Institute of Technology, Houghton Professor of Chemistry Jeremy R. Knowles and Rotch Professor of Atmospheric Science Michael B. McElroy...
...exchanges, including the New York and London markets, considered plans to shut down temporarily, as they did at the start of World War I and the end of World War II. Instead, they enacted emergency rules to limit wide market gyrations. Rather than prevent a crash, the so-called circuit breakers acted mainly to brake the wild upward surges...
...that left him irretrievably comatose. The man had lived in mental hospitals since 1951, but even if his previous competence had been unquestionable, he now has no immediate family or close friends who could tell a court whether he wanted life-prolonging care. In June an Eau Claire County Circuit Court judge decided that L.W.'s legal guardian, Paul Lenz, has the right to decide whether to halt life supports. Lenz has appealed to the state supreme court for guidance...
...Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit ruled that lists of jurors in criminal cases must be released to the public unless doing so would endanger the jurors' lives. The decision puts to rest, at least for now, a long simmering dispute between judges and journalists over access to the names of jurors who decide criminal cases...