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...middle of a busy highway. But if you're a bored, unbalanced person in need of inspiration, Oliver Stone's 1994 film Natural Born Killers--in which Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis go on a murder spree and win fame for their efforts--may be a natural-born trigger...
...leading economists are convinced that the Fed will hike the rates sometime soon. Between July 1995 and January 1996, the top bank cut interest rates three times, fearing that a weak economy could lead the nation into a recession. As the economy continues to grow, the Fed's trigger finger has got to be getting itchy. Lamia Abu-Haidar
...could have imagined at the time that the decision would trigger a stream of events that would eventually lead to Pusey's resignation and create the need for a search for Harvard's 25th president...
Although both the poll and what the nurses meant by hastening are still being hotly questioned, the story at least brings the focus back where it belongs. Historically, euthanasia talks have always broken down over who gets to pull the trigger. Even the Germans of the 1930s drew the line when Hitler got into euthanasia. Strangers can never decide whose life is worth living, because strangers by definition don't know enough; but neither do friends, because the outside of an illness is so different from the inside. To the eye of Health, any number of conditions may seem quite...
...often as much so or more in sick ones. Yet there comes a time in some illnesses when both outside and in are filled with nothing but pain and will continue to be until the inevitable end--at which point, someone throughout history nearly always pulls the trigger, legally or not. And the someone has always been the professionals on the spot, the loved ones if possible and whatever is left of the patient, in a consensus of surrender. It isn't cool or precise, but it's the best...