Word: kevorkianism
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...SONICblue, whose RioRiot is the nation's top-selling player, is to fend off Sony, Panasonic and Samsung. As these giants muscle in and as component costs fall, price wars will pressure smaller firms. "It remains to be seen if a SONICblue can sustain its brand," says analyst Susan Kevorkian of tech-research firm...
...voters of Oregon were not hasty when voting for the law. While the act does legalize physician-assisted suicide, it does so only under tightly restricted circumstances. For example, it does not allow doctors themselves to administer lethal medication in the same way practiced by the infamous Dr. Jack Kevorkian. Instead, a physician can prescribe a lethal dose of medication to a terminally ill patient who then decides if and when to use it. Self-administration helps ensure that the patient is acting voluntarily. Other restrictions demand that the patient’s request for lethal medication be in writing...
...last man to complain about Rudolph Giuliani b) ingredients for the new Kevorkian punch c) Henry Hudson's issues of Barely Legal Wenches d) PCB chemicals...
...Death - real, non-fiction death - is no stranger in our living rooms. We've seen war dead and street dead, we've seen Lee Harvey Oswald shot and Dr. Kevorkian at work. Earlier this year, public radio aired tapes of old executions in Georgia, and the republic stood. Maybe there is something magic, incomparable, holy about the live, planned display of the moment of extinguishment. But maybe not. Maybe what proponents and opponents of capital punishment have in common is that they expect an execution - the moment and the spectacle itself - to deliver too much: too much revulsion, too much...
...there may be something more to this case. McVeigh's is the first federal execution in 37 years. It is the killing of a terrorist, who therefore by definition attacked us. So on Monday it will not be Jack Kevorkian or Jack Ruby or even the citizens of another state sticking in the needle. It will be us. Is it outlandish to think that a country that doesn't like to see veins in its fried chicken doesn't much want to think about that...