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...starvation, Terri will most likely be treated for “pain or discomfort” and nausea which may arise as the result of the supposedly humane process of bringing about her death. (Remember that Schiavo is not terminally ill.) She may be given morphine for respiratory distress and may experience seizures. This protocol confirms what we have learned from famines and death camps: death by starvation is a horrible death...
...Smith Bournemouth, England The Foxhunting Ban In Verbatim, you quoted Nick Onslow, spokesman for the East Kent Hunt, about the last legal foxhunt before Britain's ban on hunting with dogs took effect [Feb. 28]. Onslow said, "It's a very emotional day. There are people who are in distress, but underlying that is anger. We are going to beat the government at this." Onslow's feeling about the slightly absurd hunting ban was typical of many. It will not protect foxes from being killed in other, less natural ways, but that is not the point. Hunting with hounds...
...escaped the horrors of industrial farming, either. Piglets have their ears notched, their tails cut off, their teeth clipped, and are routinely castrated—all without painkillers. They are then fattened up in concrete holding pens inside factory farm walls where their boredom causes fighting and psychological distress. These animals can never feel the earth under their feet, root, or even escape the nauseating stench of their own manure...
...husband of 34 years might be BTK has left her "in quite a lot of shock," says Brent Lathrop, a friend of hers since elementary school and co-owner of the Snacks convenience store, where Paula has worked as a bookkeeper since 1985. She is not alone in her distress. Any sense of righteous satisfaction that a brutal killer might be off the streets came with questions about how Rader--a former scout leader, a pillar of his church, a devoted husband and dad--allegedly could be so skillful at leading a double life...
...Meetings like this one, convened by the support group Dads in Distress, happen almost every day across Australia and New Zealand. The raison d'?tre of many of the countries' several hundred men's organizations is a conviction that the system crushes men after their marriages fall apart; that a two-punch combination of vindictive ex-partners and courts that favor mothers in custodial disputes is destroying fathers' relationships with their children. DiD meetings begin with a minute's silence for the five men who commit suicide in Australia each day, on the assumption that many of them have acted...