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...study was small, and the children of the parents who participated were treated at three hospitals (two in Boston and one in Minneapolis-St. Paul), which does not lend much statistical 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: Parents Weigh Hastening End for Dying Children | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

...contract in others. That rearrangement should further shift the Earth's inclination, or figure axis (the axis around which the Earth's mass is balanced, which is slightly different from the north-south axis around which the Earth rotates) - in the case of the Chile earthquake, by about three inches. The law of conservation of angular momentum, however, requires that even under these exigent circumstances, the Earth's angular momentum stays constant, which means the planet must step on the gas (or the brake) to accommodate shifting mass. The same thing happened in 2004 with the 9.1 Sumatran earthquake that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Chile's Earthquake Shortened Earth's Day | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

Furthermore, Wheeler predicted that the 20 percent of the electorate that typically hails from Cambridge will split its votes among the three remaining Cambridge candidates—Dennis A. Benzan, Timothy R. Flaherty, and City Councillor E. Denise Simmons...

Author: By Julie M. Zauzmer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Councillor Withdraws State Senate Candidacy | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

...alcohol and analgesics, their compulsion not dissimilar to the reason for Sylvie’s own addiction. Like the ill-fated Erysicthon, they devour themselves, and yet for all their indulgence in masochistic punishment, they cannot wrench free from the consequences of their war-torn pasts. The author of three previous novels centered on the immigrant experience, Lee is still preoccupied with tropes of alienation, estrangement, and a loss of identity. “The Surrendered” simply concerns emigrants of time rather than location...

Author: By Denise J. Xu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Love Prevails in 'Surrendered' | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

John Henry F. Hinkel: The story is about a father of three, Richard Young, who gets diagnosed with testicular cancer. The film takes place in the week leading up to his surgery. It follows his attempts—and failures—to repair the relationships with his kids and wife, who basically think he’s a dick. The film is a comedy though, and there aren’t necessarily a lot of films that take cancer and comedy and put them together...

Author: By Kelsey C. Nowell, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Spotlight: John Henry F. Hinkel '12 | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

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