Euthanasia and Physician Assisted Suicide: All sides to the issue - 0 views
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Throughout North America, committing suicide or attempting to commit suicide is no longer a criminal offense. However, helping another person commit suicide is generally considered a criminal act.
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Oregon which, since 1997, has allowed people who are terminally ill, in intractable pain, and not depressed to obtain a lethal prescription from their physician and end their chronic suffering. This is called "Physician Assisted Suicide" or PAS.
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Washington voters passed Initiative 1000 in 2008-NOV. Supporters call it a "Death with Dignity bill;" opponents call it an "Assisted Suicide" measure. Both are accurate descriptions. Montana's Montana Supreme Court legalized PAS in a decision handed down on 2009-DEC-31.
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About Jihad - Islam Jihad and Terrorism - 0 views
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Suicide under any pretext is not condoned as Jihad in Islam.
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Respond to the call for Jihad with money, effort, wisdom and life; yet, never fight a Muslim brother, a Muslim country, or a non-Muslim society that respects its treaties and harbors no aggressive designs against Islam or Muslims.
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Jihad against evil, injustice and oppression within one's self, family and society - Social Jihad.
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Were video games to blame for massacre? - Technology & science - Games - msnbc.com - 0 views
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The shooting on the Virginia Tech campus was only hours old, police hadn't even identified the gunman, and yet already the perpetrator had been fingered and was in the midst of being skewered in the media.
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Video games. They were to blame for the dozens dead and wounded. They were behind the bloodiest massacre in U.S. history. Or so Jack Thompson told Fox News and, in the days that followed, would continue to tell anyone who'd listen.
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But whether Seung-Hui Cho, the student who opened fire Monday, was an avid player of video games and whether he was a fan of "Counter-Strike" in particular remains, even now, uncertain at best.
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Euthanasia - Described and Debated - 0 views
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active and passive
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the elimination of the old, weak, and disabled.
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People who are "not useful" could be exterminated simply for that reason
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Manhunt blamed for UK murder - News at GameSpot - 0 views
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n the UK, the parents of a teenage murder victim have blamed the crime on the Rockstar game Manhunt.
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The parents of Stefan Pakeerah, 14, said their son was lured to a park by a 17-year-old player of the game, who stabbed and beat their son to death with a knife and claw hammer.
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"When one looks at what Warren did to Stephan and looks at the brutality and viciousness of the game, one can see links,"
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Jihad in the Way of Allah - Islamic Scriptures Unveiled - 0 views
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Sahih Bukhari 53:353 records Muhammad as saying, "Allah guarantees him who strives in His cause and whose motivation for going out is nothing but Jihad in His cause and belief in His word, that He will admit him into Paradise if martyred or bring him back to his dwelling place with what he gains of reward and booty."
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The Qur'an is also very clear in this matter Q4:74 - Let those fight in the way of Allah who sell the life of this world for the other. Whoso fights in the way of Allah, be he slain or be he victorious, on him We shall bestow a vast reward.
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This verse calls for one who strives in Allah's cause and who believes Allah's words to perform Jihad. And what is this Jihad? It is the striving and motivation to go out and kill or be killed with rewards of booty or paradise.
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"Sahih Bukhari 53:353 records Muhammad as saying, "Allah guarantees him who strives in His cause and whose motivation for going out is nothing but Jihad in His cause and belief in His word, that He will admit him into Paradise if martyred or bring him back to his dwelling place with what he gains of reward and booty.""
Spatial intelligence and the 'Mozart effect': Does listening to Mozart make you smarter? - 0 views
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widely believed to be an established fact
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ntelligent – it is intricate, skillful, precise and sophisticated
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rain activity becoming
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Gendercide Watch: Female Infanticide - 0 views
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female infanticide reflects the low status accorded to women in most parts of the world
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murdering girls is still sometimes believed to be a wiser course than raising them
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that "Sons are called upon to provide the income; they are the ones who do most of the work in the fields.
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Shark fin soup alters an ecosystem - Page 2 - CNN - 0 views
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Shark finning is not illegal. Taiwan has no law against fins taken from international waters coming into its ports. However, Taiwan does have what it calls a "plan of action" that requires the bodies of the sharks the fins came from to be accounted for and not dumped into the sea.
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but identifying them and monitoring them and having a regulated fishery is virtually impossible."
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Taiwan is not alone. Shark finning thrives off weak regulations around the world and only a few countries demand that sharks arrive in port with fins attached.
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Euthanasia and Human Rights - 0 views
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Euthanasia literally means “good death”. It is basically to bring about the death of a terminally ill patient or a disabled. It is resorted to so that the last days of a patient who has been suffering from such an illness which is terminal in nature or which has disabled him can peacefully end up his life and which can also prove to be less painful for him.
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Active euthanasia means putting an end to the life of an individual for merciful reason by a medical practitioner by giving a lethal dose of medication to the patient. Passive euthanasia takes place where methods such as removing artificial life support systems such as ventilators, hydration, etc are resorted to.
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On the other hand voluntary euthanasia means where a patient who is suffering a lot asks a medical practitioner to end his life whereas involuntary euthanasia is just the opposite of voluntary euthanasia that is where there is no consent of the patient but for it there can be many reasons such as if he is not mentally competent to give his consent and other such reasons.
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Jihad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views
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religious duty of Muslims
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Arabic, the word jihād translates into English as struggle.
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ppears frequently in the Qur'an and common usage as the idiomatic expression "striving in the way of Allah
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EBSCOhost: Will Media Ever Tell Truth About Jihad? - 0 views
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Militant Islamist groups that were originally recruited, trained and armed by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) have since become Islamabad's deadliest enemies. Twice they have nearly succeeded in assassinating Musharraf, who was once among their strongest supporters. In the last six years extremists have killed more than 1,000 Pakistani troops.
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Today no other country on earth
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is arguably more dangerous than Pakistan. It has everything Osama bin Laden could ask for: political instability, a trusted network of radical Islamists, an abundance of angry young anti-Western recruits, secluded training areas, access to state-of-the-art electronic technology, regular air service to the West and security services that don't always do what they're supposed to do.
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Violence and Video Games - 0 views
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As the level of violence in video games has increased, so has concern for the effects on those who play - especially those who play a lot. Many are quick to point out that most school shootings in recent years have been carried out by avid gamers, and their games of choice were always dark and violent.
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But it begs the question: Which comes first? Can aggressive and violent behavior be attributed to violence in video games? Or do those who play already have violent tendencies which draw them to violent games? It's a type of "chicken or the egg" debate that has strong advocates on both sides.
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The more lifelike they've become, the more interest there has been in the correlation between violent games and violent behavior.
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Concorde Aircraft Facts, Dates and History - 0 views
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delta wing configuration and an evolution of the afterburner equipped engines originally developed for the Avro Vulcan strategic bomber. It is the first civil airliner to be equipped with an analogue fly-by-wire flight control system.
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For speed optimization: double-delta (ogive) shaped wings afterburning Roll-Royce/Snecma Olympus turbojets with supercruise capability thrust-by-wire engines, ancestor of today's FADEC controlled engines droop-nose section for good landing visibility
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The Arthur Leigh Allen File | Zodiac Killer | Zodiac Murders | The Zodiac Movie - 0 views
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The typewriter was identified as being a Royal model, with either Elite or Pica type.
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Allen later hinted it was true, first claiming to have been "in the area" at the time, then telling people he was in nearby Pomona when he first heard of the Bates murder.
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seized a Royal typewriter with Elite type from the home of Allen.
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The gaming-violence connection: why society finds it comforting - 0 views
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the attempts to legislate restrictions on violent video games and the ambiguous science that supports those efforts.
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why these legislative efforts gain so much traction despite their lack of a solid scientific foundation.
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in the journal Contexts, USC sociology lecturer Karen Sternheimer analyzes these efforts in terms of ongoing societal fears regarding the influence of media on children.
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Euthanasia- Is mercy killing justified? - 0 views
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On June 14 2005 , the newspaper headlines sprang the news that the central Government in India was mulling over the idea of legalising euthanasia
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There are many religious and humanistic societies which protest against this mercy killing.
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That can be done by a drug overdose, a lethal injection, or the withdrawal of medical support.
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American General Assesses Foe in Iraq, And Friend - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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American and Iraqi successes targeting the leadership and financing of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia and other terrorist networks.
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He noted a series of bank robberies and attacks in recent months targeting gold markets — as well as a series of bloody attacks, especially in Baghdad.
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General Austin, a veteran of two previous tours in Iraq and one in Afghanistan, took over command from Gen. Ray Odierno on Sept. 1, coinciding with the declared end of the American combat mission here.
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The World; Why America Still Can't Find Osama bin Laden - New York Times - 0 views
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In Quetta, a city in southwestern Pakistan, Afghan refugees said teachers in madrassas and members of hardline religious parties urge young men to join the new Taliban insurgency.
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That depth of feeling, some Pakistanis note, is what makes Osama bin Laden so difficult to catch.
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As dusk arrived in the city last Saturday and the call to prayer sounded from local mosques, a young Afghan madrassa student in a turban demanded that a visiting American leave the area. As the foreigner drove away, a young boy spat in his face.
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