I find the Terry Shiavo case very interesting and confusing. I can see how both sides have a case. Terry’s husband, believing he is fulfilling his wife’s wishes of not being left a vegetable, has finally filed enough legal documents to get the feeding tube, the tube that also provides her with water, removed so that she will die. Her parents and other family members have been fighting long and hard to have the tube maintained, or in some cases, reattached to keep her alive. They maintain that she can respond to their voices and they believe that with...
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That is the slogan of my favorite energy drink, Rockstar. I drink one on irregular occasions, usually at work when I am tired and its busy. A lot of people drink energy drinks to stay alert at work. Other people will drink a variety of coffee drinks from some place like Starbucks. The company has a large faithful following of people who will not only wait in line for coffee, but will pay $7.00 for one as well. While it is nice to get a little energy boost when you work long hours at a boring monotonous job, (think...
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One would have to be remarkably unaware of what is happening in the world today not to know that society was facing a drug problem. A drug problem on a scale which is costing thousands of lives and untold millions of pounds to control. This is not a question of Chinese opium rings in Soho – it is a social menace which affects society as a whole across age and class. The government is worried, the police are pretty much baffled but nobody really knows what to do. We hear of spectacular police ‘busts’ where they come across huge...
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