Word: states
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Since Juan and Eva Peron came to power in 1946, the Argentine state has, because of political pressures from both business and labor, taken on the role of subsidizing a wide range of economic activities...
...similar debacle could occur in the western state of Acre. It is still virtually pristine, having lost only 4% of its forests, but the rate of deforestation is increasing sharply as cattle ranchers expand their domain. Development in Acre has sparked a series of bloody confrontations between ranchers and rubber tappers, who want to preserve the forests so they can save their traditional livelihood of harvesting latex and Brazil nuts. It was this conflict that killed Mendes...
Among other things, environmentalists fear that completion of the road will provide entree for Japanese trading companies that covet the Amazon's vast timber resources. Acre's governor, however, argues that the road is needed to end the state's isolation and claims that the state will not repeat the mistakes of Rondonia...
Last week McAfee got his wish. Superior Court Judge Edward Johnson of Fulton County, Ga., ruled that McAfee's right to refuse life-sustaining treatment outweighed the state's interest in preserving life. "The ventilator to which he is attached is not prolonging his life; it is prolonging his death," said Johnson. With the court's authorization, McAfee plans to move from a nursing home to a friend's apartment and end his life by using a mouth-activated timer to shut off the ventilator after medical personnel have sedated...
...involve comatose patients whose families are seeking to withdraw life-support systems. This fall the U.S. Supreme Court will rule on such a situation for the first time when it considers the case of Nancy Cruzan, 32, a Missouri factory worker who has been in an irreversible vegetative state for six years. The court has been asked to decide whether there is a constitutional right of privacy broad enough to allow Cruzan's family to disconnect the feeding tubes that nourish her, and thereby to let her die. An alliance of disability-rights activists and antiabortion groups has already begun...