Word: northerners
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...will decide whether Americans who are terminally ill have a right to get help from their doctors and family members to end their lives. This announcement came just a week after Robert Dent, a 66 year-old cancer sufferer, became the first person to die under Australia's Northern Territory's controversial legislation--the first of its kind anywhere in the world--legalizing voluntary euthanasia. In the U.S. and elsewhere around the world, many euthanasia advocates have cheered the Northern Territory law. They hope for similar laws in the United States in light of the Supreme Court's decision...
...course, proponents can argue that there would be safeguards for the practice--the law in the Northern Territories requires that a psychiatrist and three doctors examine the patient to establish that the patient is terminally ill, and that he or she is of sound mind. But the scenarios described above pertain to patients who are not only terminally ill, but have made a rational decision that they want to end their lives. However, their reasons remain unjustifiable to society in general. So then, who is to determine who really qualifies for the procedure? Are we going to restrict...
Heaney, 56, whose poetry addresses the religious strife between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland, was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature. He was the first Harvard professor ever awarded the literature prize, which carries an award of $1 million...
...main topic of Heaney's work is the religious strife between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland...
...arrested. In June, Harrelson was nabbed for planting four hemp seeds in Kentucky to promote hemp's usefulness as a crop. Last week he hung from the Golden Gate Bridge with other environmentalists, snarling traffic and doing interviews by phone to protest the logging of a redwood grove in Northern California. "I just lately learned about climbing," the actor told the San Francisco Examiner. "I didn't get much sleep last night." Back on earth, he was arrested (again) and faces a $10,000 fine...