Pánuco
Pánuco , river, c.315 mi (510 km) long, rising as the Santa María River in San Luis Potosí state, N central Mexico, and flowing generally east to empty into the Gulf of Mexico near Tampico. It is navigable for c.200 mi (322 km). Tributaries, including the Moctezuma, drain, sometimes by artificial means, the Anáhuac region.
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Guidelines on food and water for PVS patients.(Vatican)(permanent vegetative state)
Magazine article from: Catholic Insight; 11/1/2007; 517 words
; ...supplying of nutrition and hydration by artificial means to PVS (permanent vegetative state...food and water (whether by natural or artificial means) to a patient in a 'vegetative state...administration of food and water even by artificial means is, in principle, an ordinary and...
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Killing by euphemism.(THE SCHIAVO CASE)(case for ending the life of Terri Schiavo)
Magazine article from: National Review; 4/25/2005; 700+ words
; ...but she was not in a coma or on a respirator. She was not being kept alive by artificial means, any more than small children are kept alive by artificial means when their parents feed them. Her body was functioning, there is some reason...
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Sex that contributes: human flourishing should be the standard, not openness to procreation.(The Sexual Person: Toward a Renewed Catholic Anthropology)(Book review)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 2/6/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...same-sex relationships, cohabitation and artificial means of reproduction. However, its contribution...The proposals on cohabitation and artificial means of reproduction require further consideration...reluctant to impose any absolute limits on artificial means of reproduction, the ...
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Death and dying. (discussing death with your children) (Editorial)
Newspaper article from: Pediatrics for Parents; 11/1/1991; ; 630 words
; ...but also allows for the continuation of life solely by artificial means. Do you want to be kept alive no matter how small the chances...recovering, or is it your desire not to be kept alive by artificial means? Do you have a living will? Grandpa's critical situation...
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Black Magic.(Excerpt)
Magazine article from: Change; 9/1/2001; 100 words
; ...borders on artificial insemination....Type is writing that is edited, shaped, doctored, and made to reproduce itself through artificial means; and writing itself is a kind of gene-bank for ideas.... [T]ypography is a means of implanting the fruits of chosen minds...
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Extraordinary means.(From the Editors)(Editorial)
Magazine article from: Commonweal; 4/8/2005; 700+ words
; ...is not self-evident that sustaining a person in PVS by artificial means is of benefit to that person. The mere prolongation of...not the removal of nutrition and hydration delivered by artificial means, is the cause of death. If that teaching is to change...
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End-of-life ethics: what is 'artificial means' and what is nonnegotiable, humane care?(Medicine)
Magazine article from: Sojourners Magazine; 8/1/2004; ; 634 words
; ...focused on care of patients in a vegetative state, declared that the administration of water and food, even when provided by artificial means, always represents a natural means of preserving life, not a medical act, and is, as such, morally obligatory. These statements...
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RUSSIA: ROGOZIN SAYS GOVERNMENT TRIES TO SET MARKET VALUE.
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 6/21/2005; 89 words
; ...the government can't set the market value. The energetic leader stressed that the government tries to lift the market in artificial means but foreign investors know the truth about the level of corruption, bureaucracy and the judicial system under Putin leadership...
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Feeding tube appeal denied.(U.S. Briefs)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 1/14/2005; ; 126 words
; ...against euthanasia. They say their daughter would agree with the church's position that providing food and water, even by artificial means, was moral and obligatory. The 2nd District Court of Appeals, in Lakeland, issued the denial without a written opinion...
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Brother, now on life support at California Hospital, is chief suspect in Bison Dele case. (Sports).
Magazine article from: Jet; 10/7/2002; 237 words
; ...segment of the investigation at JET press time. The Los Angeles Times reported that Dabord is dead, living only through artificial means, according to his mother, Patricia Phillips. Dabord was found unconscious Sept. 14 in Tijuana, Mexico, and taken to a hospital...
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Huastec
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
, indigenous people of the Pánuco River basin, E Mexico. They speak a Mayan language but are isolated from the rest of the Mayan stock, from whom they may have been...
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Tampico
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
, city (1990 pop. 272,690), Tamaulipas state, E Mexico, on the Pánuco River, a few miles inland from the Gulf of Mexico. Rivaling Veracruz as Mexico's most important seaport, Tampico is used primarily...
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Anáhuac
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
[Aztec,=near the water], geographical term used variously in Mexico before the Spanish Conquest. Today it commonly refers to that part of the central plateau of Mexico comprising the Pánuco and Lerma river systems and the lake basin of the Valley of Mexico.
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San Luis Potosí
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...is the capital. Most of the state lies on the eastern tablelands of Mexico's central plateau. Except in the humid tropical Pánuco River valley in the extreme east, near the Gulf of Mexico, the climate is mild and dry. Generally level, with an average elevation...
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Maya
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Salvador and extreme western Honduras. Speaking a group of closely related languages (with an outlier, Huastec, spoken in the Pánuco basin of Mexico), the population of Maya today is over 4 million. Maya Prehistory Archaeologists divide the prehistory of the...
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