Word: conscious
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...begin work as a lecturer at Harvard Law School, teaching the rights of animals. What's necessary, Wise thinks, is to coax what he calls a paradigm shift in people's understanding of the human place, and animals' place, in nature. If--hypothetically--a certain nonhuman animal has a conscious mind, with faculties of self-awareness, language, emotional bonds and social skills, is not the animal entitled at least to legal protections against imprisonment, torture, vivisection and other horrors regularly visited on creatures that, legally speaking, have only the status of things...
Although he was fully conscious, Carson was immediately rushed to Mount Auburn Hospital, where he spent five hours undergoing x-rays and other examinations. At 4 a.m., he was brought to the University Health Services infirmary, where he will be kept until at least later today...
...soundtrack release featuring music from the hit television series "The Sopranos" is like a friend's mix tape. Similar to those perfect-for-driving staples, the album is a hodgepodge of tracks assembled for their self-conscious hipness or relevance to the show. Where else would you find Van Morrison buddying up to Los Lobos or Bo Diddley rubbing elbows with Bruce Springsteen? In the quirky gangster world created by producer David Chase, baby...
...Wise hopes to coax what he calls a paradigm shift in people's understanding of the place of humans and animals in nature. If it is proved that a certain nonhuman animal has a conscious mind, with faculties of self-awareness, language, memory, emotional bonds and social skills, is not the animal entitled at least to legal protection against imprisonment, torture, vivisection and other horrors regularly visited on creatures that, legally speaking, have only the status of things...
...made the conscious decision to condone fighting at some level--much more so than any other professional league. It faces the consequences of this decision in its day-to-day operations. Hockey has a stigma like no other sport. It is the only sport that does not receive a major network broadcast of its championship games. Incidents like this do not help its reputation. But it has made the decision to allow this behavior at some level, and should deal with the consequences independently...