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...power to its findings. But given the considerable social stigma about euthanasia in the U.S., where only two states, Oregon and Washington, have legalized physician-assisted suicide, researchers think that the percentage of parents admitting to having thoughts about hastening death is probably lower than reality. (See how to prevent illness...
...Revolutionary Guards, which many now believe to be the nation's true power center. Her comments came as the U.S. continues to push for new U.N. sanctions against Tehran, which recently announced it would enrich uranium to higher levels, reinforcing suspicions that it intends to produce nuclear weapons. To prevent such an outcome, Clinton said, the U.S. is focused on both "engagement and political pressure...
While the Council could vote in the future to reinstate this project, Hysen said that last night’s cancellation of project funding would likely prevent the site from launching this year...
...call the Lieberman-Obama relationship ironic is an understatement. As chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Lieberman has launched investigations of the Army's handling of the Fort Hood massacre and what he calls the White House's "unsettling" failure to prevent the attempted bombing of a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day. Meanwhile, Lieberman opposed Attorney General Eric Holder's decision last November to try 9/11 co-conspirators in civilian courts, and earlier this year he rallied Republicans and Democrats to sign a letter to Holder urging him to abandon the trials in favor of military tribunals...
Those criteria, which the UNDP insists it verifies for each hire, help prevent the program from becoming a political patronage orgy. UNDP officials say the Haitian government has been remarkably cooperative. But Haitians aren't shy about noting how thoroughly corrupt that government is. Many workers openly laud the fact that they don't need to know (or kick back to) a local machine boss to get a cash-for-work spot - "If the government were running this, I probably wouldn't have this job," says Sentelis Doassalit, 30 - and that the pay goes directly to their hands...