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...want physician-assisted suicide, you'll need to move to Oregon, the only state in which doctors may legally administer a lethal dose of medication. Hawaii considers legalizing it next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exit Strategies | 9/18/2000 | See Source »

HUPD issues each of its officers a Glock.40-caliber pistol for use while on-duty. Officers are not allowed to carry other lethal weapons, although they do carry batons and pepper spray. In the event that heavier firepower is needed, HUPD can call on other police agencies, including the Massachusetts State Police, Boston Police and the Cambridge Police Department...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Just the Facts | 9/15/2000 | See Source »

...ignoring some of the integral humanitarian issues and instead focusing on violent, lethal means to a successful defeat of the guerillas and paramilitary groups, the U.S. demonstrates its complete neglect of human need. Even though children are tortured, 300,000 people are forced from their homes per year and there are an average of 10 political killings a day, the U.S. administration does not view the Colombian situation as a humanitarian crisis. To the U.S., the only statistic that matters is that 90 percent of cocaine in the U.S. comes from Colombia. Drugs are the name of the game; human...

Author: By Frances G. Tilney, | Title: Funding the Wrong War | 9/13/2000 | See Source »

...with natural buoyancy and a basketballer's feet and hands, he can move water like the moon. His cartoon elasticity, combined with the longest stroke in swimming, makes "Thorpedo" everything his nickname suggests: sleek, smooth, strangely beautiful and, to the competition, lethal. "If you were going to do a Frankenstein," says Brian Sutton, coach of nine Australian Olympians, "if you were going to put a swimmer together from scratch, you'd build Ian Thorpe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Summer Olympics: Ian Thorpe | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

...sports. But at 193 cm and 90 kg, with natural buoyancy and a basketballer's feet and hands, he can move water like the moon. His cartoon elasticity, combined with the longest stroke in swimming, makes "Thorpedo" everything his nickname suggests: sleek, smooth, strangely beautiful and, to the competition, lethal. "If you were going to do a Frankenstein," says Brian Sutton, coach of nine Australian Olympians, "if you were going to put a swimmer together from scratch, you'd build Ian Thorpe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Profile: Ian Thorpe | 9/6/2000 | See Source »

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