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...after months of pleading by his despondent wife. Under Texas law, aiding a suicide is a misdemeanor carrying a maximum punishment of a $200 fine. Why did the poison have to be so undetectable? His lawyers contended that he was hoping to spare his nine-year-old son the stigma of a family suicide by making the death seem an inexplicable consequence of the stroke. Susan Chanslor took the stand to support her husband's story. "I discussed with Bill the possibility of ending my own life," she told the jury. "He was a typical husband. He wouldn...
...stigma of leprosy is based largely on misunderstanding. The use of the term leprosy in the Bible was the result of translation errors; eczema or psoriasis would be more accurate. Furthermore, leprosy, also known as Hansen's disease after the doctor who discovered the bacterium that causes it, is not very contagious. About 95% of the world's population seems to be immune, and even those who are susceptible are at risk only after long-term exposure to an active case...
That the genesis of homosexuality remains uncertain, however, is exactly why society should not get involved. Sexual preferences may well be transmitted generally or early in childhood Penalizing homosexual behavior--or attaching a stigma to it by trying to discourage it--represents the most invidious form of discrimination Pattullo would treat an alternative lifestyle as pitiable and to be discouraged--though its proponents may have had no choice over their preferences...
...Student Assembly, batting low attendance and a lame-duck stigma last night urged the formation of a student advisory committee in the financial aid office to investigate how proposed cuts in federal tuition support could affect Harvard students and the College's admission policies...
...would consider the minority status of applicants In the second pool if the racial mix of the earlier group proved in balance. The reason for the continuing faculty misgivings; professors felt the weight put on minority status would undermine the publication's traditional "meritocratic" selection process and place a stigma on minority editors...