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Killing kindness. (physician-assisted suicide)
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May 1, 1994|
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Jack Kevorkian believes we can solve moral problems by medicalizing them.
THE ACT OF KILLING MAY BE DEEMED good or bad, depending on who kills whom and why. When a man shoots an intruder about to attack him, we condone the killing as self-defense. When a bandit shoots a bank teller, we condemn the killing as murder. However, when a person kills himself, we are confused about whether to regard his act as good or bad and instead classify it as mad.
Although priests no longer consider suicide a mortal sin, and lawmakers do not punish it as an offense against the ...
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Pliocene crustal shortening on the Tyrrhenian side of the northern Apennines: evidence from the Gavorrano antiform (southern Tuscany, Italy)
Magazine article from: Journal of the Geological Society
; ...Tyrrhenian Sea and the inner northern Apennines are classically regarded as a late Miocene...a key sector of the inner northern Apennines. Lying close to the northern Tyrrhenian...basis we suggest that the inner northern Apennines were affected by crustal shortening during...
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First results from the CROP-11 deep seismic profile, central Apennines, Italy: evidence of mid-crustal folding
Magazine article from: Journal of the Geological Society
; ...deep seismic profile across the central Apennines, Italy, reveals a previously unknown...renewed contraction in the rear. The Apennines (Italy) form a NW-trcnding, ENE...thrusting across the northern and southern Apennines has been unveiled by, respectively...
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Union Texas Petroleum expands exploration interests in Italy's southern Apennines oil play.
Business Wire
; ...expanded its interests in the Southern Apennines oil play onshore Southern Italy with...exploration permit areas in the Southern Apennines, which has been attracting increasing...net acreage position in the Southern Apennines to a total of 112, 194 net acres, up...
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The complete Apennines orogenic cycle preserved in a transient single outcrop near San Fele, Lucania, southern Italy
Magazine article from: Journal of the Geological Society
; ...led to the development of the Lucanian Apennines in southern Italy, from pre-orogenic...chronology of deformations in the Lucanian Apennines, and may provide useful constraints...Keywords: Southern Italy, Lucanian Apennines, orogeny, inversion tectonics, structural...
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Classification of Cyclone Tracks over the Apennines and the Adriatic Sea
Magazine article from: Monthly Weather Review
; ...track: Genoa cyclones crossing over the Apennines to the Adriatic Sea, and (A-II...toward the Adriatic but blocked by the Apennines]; 2) type B: cyclones developed in...cyclones coexist and stride over the Apennines (twin or eyeglass cyclones); and 4...
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Alpine tectonothermal evolution of the Tuscan Metamorphic Complex in the Larderello geothermal field (northern Apennines, Italy)
Magazine article from: Journal of the Geological Society
; ...internal (Tyrrhenian) side of the northern Apennines, high heat flow and geothermal gradient...relate to the Miocene to Recent northern Apennines magmatism, which developed as a result...convective cooling of intrusions. Keywords: Apennines, Pliocene, deformation, metamorphism...
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Reconstruction of continental margin architecture deformed by the contraction of the Lagonegro Basin, southern Apennines, Italy
Magazine article from: Journal of the Geological Society
; ...The Lagonegro units of the southern Apennines comprise a deformed pelagic basin succession...carbonate platforms. Keywords: southern Apennines, rift basins, inversion tectonics...references therein). In the southern Apennines of pensinsular Italy, the fundamental...
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Extensional detachment faulting on the Tyrrhenian margin of the southern Apennines contractional belt (Italy)
Magazine article from: Journal of the Geological Society
; ...core complexes. Along the Tyrrhenian margin of the Italian Apennines lowangle normal faulting has been documented at several locations...Further south, along the Tyrrhenian margin of the Southern Apennines, detachment faults are not as well documented and the structural...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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Sound of the BBC in the night - and a barking dog; Diary of a PoW With the winter of 1943 fast approaching, PoW Anthony Laing continued his trek through the Apennines of Emilia Romagna, in Italy, in an attempt to meet up with Britain's liberating units. Today he describes how he was far from alone on the mountain passes.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England)
; ...600-mile walk through the Italy's Apennines, meeting many of the brave families who...envelope marked Friendship through the Apennines, at Flat 7, 18 Lambolle Road, London...involved visit www.birminghampost.net/apennines
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Carbon-isotope stratigraphy of Cenomanian-Turonian platform carbonates from the southern Apennines (Italy): a chemostratigraphic approach to the problem of correlation between shallow-water and deep-water successions
Magazine article from: Journal of the Geological Society
; ...carbon-isotope record of three sections of shallow-water carbonates from the Upper Cretaceous sequences of the southern Apennines (Italy) shows a pronounced positive excursion of about 4-5[per thousand]. Using the upper Cenomanian Cisalveolina...
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