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...week was handled in a bizarre manner by the mainstream news media. In the New York Times and on network television news shows, the fact that Brooks was the first American to be executed by lethal injection often sidetracked the press into focusing on the “ethical questions?? raised by a doctor’s participation in taking Brooks’s life. A second tangential issue that received prominent play was whether or not pumping deadly chemicals into Brooks was more “humane” than giving him a lethal dose of electricity...
...student of the world,” Matthews said. Praising Barack Obama throughout his speech, Matthews said the Illinois Democrat is a symbol of the positive change that he believe the country needs. Matthews’ exuberance—marked by his characteristic interruptions of audience members’ questions??kept his listeners laughing. “I thought [Matthews] was engaging and the excitement was palpable in the audience,” said Harvard Kennedy School student Taufiq Z. Rahim. “It was interesting to see a political pundit like him in many ways gush...
Gilbert’s ability to ask questions??and propose answers—puts him at the forefront of the growing field of happiness research. New releases such as “The How of Happiness,” “The Happiness Hypothesis,” and Harvard’s own Tal Ben-Shahar’s “Happier” are signs that its never been trendier to be happy in our Prozac nation. But Gilbert and his colleagues are quick to emphasize the difference between self-help texts and his work...
...facing the U.S. today? CRS: One very pressing constitutional question is the authority of the president to act on his own. Under what circumstances can the president act unilaterally? We don’t know the answer to this. In terms of individual rights there are two obviously pressing questions??the question of discrimination on the basis of disability on the constitutional side and in the interpretation of Americans with Disabilities Act, and the question of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. In terms of the horizon, the rights of nonhuman animals seem to me a quite...
...Meanwhile, I’ve had a lot of difficulty adapting to my new identity. This situation has raised many questions??for example, if I only use Lamp in the morning, but its effects last all day, how long am I a cyborg? How do I explain my new situation to my friends and family? What does it mean about the relationship between humans and our helpful robots that I felt the need to name Lamp...