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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...shovels toppling over, cranes swinging quickly by and crushing heads as they went, railroad accidents, falls from scaffolding while building the enormous locks and gates, and all the various diseases generated significant anxiety. A man named Albert Banister worked in the boiler room at Cristobal and related how casually death appeared in conversations: 'Man died get blow up get kill or get drown during the time someone would asked where is Brown he died last night and burry where is Jerry he dead a little before dinner and buried so on and so on all the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Many Men, A Plan, A Canal — Panama | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

...seeing those words in plain text promises to end the agonizing guessing game by confirming, beyond doubt, that the other person feels the same way. For some people, this declaration can become decidedly too real: Take the extreme example of the London resident who hacked his estranged wife to death with a meat cleaver last October after she changed her Facebook relationship status to “single.” Psychotic tendencies aside, this tragic case demonstrates the reality-making power of labels and begs the questions: What makes the online construction of a relationship status any less ephemeral...

Author: By Courtney A. Fiske | Title: Relationship Status on Facebook: | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

...young woman, Bachelet coped with her father’s kidnapping, torture, and death. This came at the hands of the rightist authoritarian regime of Pinochet. Shortly thereafter, she and her mother were also captured, tortured, imprisoned, and eventually exiled. She returned to Chile, finished her medical studies, and, after a distinguished career of public service in health and defense, became the first female president of Chile—making her story yet more extraordinary. As a former political prisoner herself, her empathy and compassion might go hand in hand with her politics. But this is not the case...

Author: By Daniel Balmori | Title: Diminished Democratic Ideals | 2/22/2009 | See Source »

...when discussing the death penalty and his faith, Scalia expressed relief that the Church had yet to find the death penalty categorically immoral since that was neither his personal conclusion nor the Originalist position on the Constitution. "I like my job, and would rather not resign," he wrote in 2002. "[I]n my view, the choice for the judge who believes the death penalty to be immoral is resignation, rather than simply ignoring duly enacted, constitutional laws and sabotaging death penalty cases. He has, after all, taken an oath to apply the laws and has been given no power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Catholic Judges and Abortion: Did the Pope Set New Rules? | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

...does Scalia recognize a duty to resign were the law of the Constitution dealing with the death penalty to become inescapably at odds with Catholic teaching, but not in like circumstance for abortion? For Scalia, it is the difference between two qualitatively different constitutional claims - a textual one (the death penalty being clearly anticipated by the Constitution) and a nontextual one (abortion). But under Rome's new direction to jurists to get busy correcting the law, that interpretative nicety won't cut it. The duty for Scalia and the other Catholic jurists turns on what faith requires, not what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Catholic Judges and Abortion: Did the Pope Set New Rules? | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

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