Word: die
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...FACE IT. We're all fascinated by death. Every single one of us. And that's no coincidence--it has a lot to do with the fact that every single one of us will die someday...
...seeing a real live person exterminated on national television. I'm not sure how I'd react myself. I don't consider myself a particularly bloodthirsty person, but I've got to admit--I'm kind of curious to see what it would be like to see someone die. I wonder what kind of effect it would have on me. Would I be sickened? Saddened? Angered? Relatively indifferent? Beats...
...also wonder what kind of effect seeing a man die would have on my views on the death penalty. I'm not usually one to waffle about my opinions, but to be honest, capital punishment is a toughie. I know all the questions--the deterrence arguments, the racial bias arguments, the law-and-order arguments, the what-if-we-make-a-mistake arguments, the cruel-and-unusual arguments, the don't-kill-to-show-killing-is-wrong arguments--but I don't have any answers. Maybe the emotional shock of witnessing an execution would convince me that capital punishment...
Fairfield University A philosophy professor at the Catholic college questioned the presentation of an honorary doctorate to the writer of Only the Good Die Young ("Come out Virginia/ Don't let me wait/ You Catholic girls start much too late...
...rain, posing a further threat to the phytoplankton that is the base food supply for the region's abundant fisheries. And it enters the air passages and lungs of all breathing creatures. Kuwaitis who have seen the blackened lungs of slaughtered animals and watched livestock and wildlife sicken and die can only wonder what effect the ubiquitous mist is having on humans...