Medical Ethics (Current Event Summary #1) Parents oppose end of care for brain-dead son. This event was about Motl Brody of Brooklyn. He was pronounced dead after a half-year fight against a brain tumor‚ and the DR’s at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington say the seventh-grader’s brain has ceased functioning entirely. “ But for the past few days‚ a machine has continued to inflate and deflate his lungs. As of late Friday his heart was still beating with the help of a cocktail of
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Graham Mattison The Bible and Current Events Position Paper on Biblical Topic Dr. Kathleen Corley 11/15/2007 It isn’t the end of the world…yet. Many people believe that we are currently in the end times prophesized in the Bible. Although it would be fairly simple to attach biblical significance to events occurring in our current times‚ it is important to note‚ a great multitude of people‚ throughout the centuries‚ have searched within their own times for signs of the coming apocalypse
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Safety Science 45 (2007) 431–447 www.elsevier.com/locate/ssci Towards more eVective methods for changing perceptions of noise in the workplace Warwick Williams a‚¤‚ Suzanne C. Purdy a‚ Lydia Storey a‚ Morris Nakhla b‚ Gael Boon b a National Acoustic Laboratories‚ 126 Greville Street‚ Chatswood‚ NSW 2067‚ Australia b Sydney Water‚ Sydney‚ NSW‚ Australia Abstract This research examined the intervention eVects of a simple one-hour training session designed to raise the awareness of
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Evan Schwartz September 19‚ 2012 Current Event #1 With the internet came a whole new type of economy. Sites popped up with whole new ways to make purchases. Almost anything from around the world can be purchased online. For a while‚ the most popular transactional methods were to buy direct from a store’s website‚ from a large retailer like Amazon‚ or from auctions created by other consumers on EBay. But a new method has arrived that is racking up millions of dollars of online transactions
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Erin Powers Mrs. Runkle Economics- E Period February 26th‚ 2013 Current Event #1: International 1.) Source money.cnn.com‚ http://money.cnn.com/2013/02/27/news/economy/minimum-wage/ index.html 2.) Summary of Article According to CNN news tabs‚ Americans in the United States who possess the ability to work for minimum wage has dropped in the past year. From 2012 to now in 2013‚ the estimated amount of people who have minimum wage paying jobs has lowered from 3.8 million to 3.6 million. In some states
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Rodney Colt Feimster GLST 200-001 Student ID:25709323 Current Event 2: 2.81m hungry in drought stricken Central America http://article.wn.com/view/2014/08/31/281m_hungry_in_droughtstricken_Central_America/ http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2014/09/01/2003598786 I found this article through World News‚ which is why I included two links. World News used this article from Taipei times. Overview: A drought has ravaged through South and Central America affecting the so-called “dry corridor
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Current Events Assignment In the article it proclaims about how a plane with Russian tourists crashed in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt just few days ago. Russian tourists were coming back from visiting the wonders of Egypt‚ heading towards St. Petersburg‚ Russia. Most people of Egypt were shocked about this incident. Fortunately‚ the plane did not have any explosives‚ as this is a counterexample regarding ISIS claiming they caused it. Apparently‚ ISIS wants more attention around the globe to scare
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Current Events September Summarize the Article Parkinson’s disease‚ a chronic disease with unknown causes‚ attacks brain cells‚ specifically the ones that control body movement. This causes shaking‚ stiff limbs‚ and poor coordination. Because of this‚ Professor Trond Riise and colleagues Anders Engeland and Kjetil Bjørnevik started the painstaking work of analyzing over 100 million prescriptions in Norway. Their research started in 2004 and continues to this day. In their study‚ the medicines that
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there is no such thing as an obesity epidemic; and that America’s large percentage of people who are overweight is nothing to panic over or to consider as a dangerous plague. The fact is‚ however‚ obesity is quite a serious issue. Most recently in current events‚ it was stated that obesity has now surpassed smoking as the leading cause of preventable death in the United States of America. The smoking epidemic gained a great deal of publicity‚ leading to protest groups and awareness groups that all aimed
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1984 Current Event: Privacy and Censorship 1) The main issue is that there is a new Facebook feature that allows others to share someone’s post. The creator of the post has “zero control over which posts friends promote” (Guynn). For a $7 fee‚ friends can “repost” statuses‚ leading to a lack of privacy; due to the fact that hundreds or maybe thousands of people you do not know are reading your post. 2) According to Facebook‚ “this feature respects the privacy of the original poster- i.e. it
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