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...about his life, he parrots courtroom legalese: "Read the record . . . I have no comment." When a photographer asks to "take" his picture, he replies in all seriousness, "I don't have one." On June 9, at one minute past midnight, unless he receives executive clemency, he will die by lethal injection...
...antiwrinkle cream Retin-A may have an important side effect: it reverses a condition that sometimes leads to cervical cancer, and it can erase the moles that are precursors of the lethal skin cancer melanoma...
...spend all their days with the terminally ill are divided over Kevorkian's answer to the problem of pain. Some may respect the patients' decision to kill themselves but draw the line doing it for them. To withdraw treatment merely allows the disease to do the killing. A lethal injection is altogether different. "Medicine is a profession dedicated to healing," the American Medical Association has declared. "Its tools should not be used to kill people...
Many kids, who can be lethal critics of the sexual mores of their parents' generation, say they are offended that adults have so little faith in them. "Not all teenagers have sex. They're not all going to do it just because everyone else is," says Kristen Thomas, 17, of Plymouth, Minnesota. "They kind of have a lack of faith in us -- parents and general society...
MEDICINE: Lethal Legacy...