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...Dignitas may be ruffling a lot of feathers, but it isn't breaking any laws. Switzerland has some of the world's most liberal statutes on assisted suicide: a doctor may provide a lethal dose of drugs to a terminally ill person if a physician is convinced that the patient has no chance of recovery, that he or she is mentally and physically capable of making the decision to die, and that the patient administers the drug him- or herself. Euthanasia, however - in which a doctor administers the drugs to end a patient's life - remains illegal in Switzerland, though...
...achieve a hemisphere-wide free-trade pact - especially since, as he notes, Bush preaches free trade to Brazil yet still maintains high tariffs against Brazil's most competitive products, steel and frozen orange juice. Which means the only choice Washington seems to have in Brazil is to be as patient as Lula has been...
...nearly 1 a.m., Blickstead tires of swaying. He nears the door as if to begin planning his exit strategy. After 15 minutes of patient door-side chit-chat, the human barricade around the door dissipates and it seems that this steaming, stinking party womb might actually expel Blickstead back into the cool night air from whence he came...
Since the presence of PGC-1 can change the composition of muscle fibers without a patient engaging in physical exercise, it may be possible to reinvigorate fatigued muscle just by injecting the protein into a patient...
...integrate tactile sensations and balance. Transient out-of-body experiences can occur in anyone, but a glance around is usually all it takes to ground the brain in reality again. The right angular gyrus, however, sits quite near the vestibular cortex, the seat of balance. Jolting the Swiss patient's gyrus apparently threw the delicate feedback system out of synch--creating a state of neural chaos that was exacerbated when she moved her eyes and body. Whether shamans achieve the same state through meditation is impossible to say. But if they do, they have certainly found a more pleasant...