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...seems to us that the opponents of physician-assisted suicide, those who have been most wary about it, have at least as much at stake in passing such legislation as the proponents," he told the Globe. "They should help pass a statute that prevents a slide down the slippery slope...
...that Payne put up his lot and $100,000 of his mother's property as collateral. Even so, Payne is still about $350,000 shy of what he needs to begin construction--and losing ground. Vacant, the land is declining in value. "It puts the applicant on a slippery slope," says Payne. "I have no income, I have no building, and I have a debt of more than $1,000 a month I hadn't had before the riots...
...Toshi notes, Americans "offer up their unhappy childhoods like movie plots, or like gifts." All this is set against the backdrop of the Crown Prince's dating Brooke Shields, protesting farmers dumping foreign rice, and "laid-off Toyota workers burn[ing] AMERICA=AIDS into the brush on the southern slope of Mount Fuji." While cultures fight, their products flirt...
...rewards could be enormous: oil and mineral wealth to rival Alaska's North Slope and California's Gold Rush; scientific discoveries that could change our view of how the planet--and the life-forms on it--evolved; natural substances that could yield new medicines and whole new classes of industrial chemicals. Beyond those practical benefits there is the intangible but real satisfaction that comes from exploring earth's last great frontier...
American democracy must reinvent itself now "atthe exact moment that it seems we're sliding downthe slippery slope into anarchy and chaos," Westsaid...