Word: kit
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...kits, which will debut in Britain in May and retail for $50, include a syringe that allows users to extract half a milliliter of barbiturate solution without breaking the sanitary seal. "Clearly, sterility doesn't matter given that death is the desired outcome," Nitschke says. But the solution deteriorates slower in a sterile environment, allowing those with painful conditions to "lock it away in the back of the cupboard in case things gets too bad." The extracted sample is then mixed with chemicals from the kit; a color change indicates a lethal solution. (See pictures of suicide...
...that you were sorry?”; when a survivor warns, “He’s the one you least expect”; when yet another states, “[I] waited at the hospital in an exam room for three hours waiting for a rape kit and never got one,” the impact that incidents of sexual assault have had on these individuals is undeniable.“Saturday Night: Untold Stories of Sexual Assault at Harvard,” an artistic and literary magazine published by the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response...
...will be "surrounded on four sides" by the three projects. What's more, like his neighbors and other concerned parties - including the Environmental Center of San Luis Obispo County - Strobridge is worried about the impact the power plants will have on endangered species such as the San Joaquin kit fox. He is also concerned about the effect on dwindling water supplies as well as the more intangible treasures of the area: the unimpeded views, the stark silence, the rustic natural beauty, the huge wilderness area called the Carrizo Plain National Monument just down the valley - that is, just about everything...
...Maude aggrandizes herself as the erstwhile “Belle of Memphis,” and by the time she meets Wright, her self-obsession has collapsed into pure solipsism, not without the help of a casual morphine addiction. “Yes, she’d hidden her kit from Frank as much as possible and from Leora too, not that she was ashamed or in danger of becoming a morphinomane or anything of that nature, but because her medicines were a private affair and no one else’s…” Boyle masterfully conveys...
...former spies argue that the Agency's staff need to be protected from changes in political climate. A joint statement issued by Feinstein and her Republican counterpart on the committee, Missouri Senator Kit Bond, said the probe will examine, among other things, "whether the CIA implemented the program in compliance with official guidance, including covert action findings, Office of Legal Counsel opinions, and CIA policy." But the staffers responsible for carrying out detention and interrogation policies, they say, would never have used the controversial techniques if it had not been for explicit legal guidance from the Bush Administration...