最近国际上比较热门的时事(可以充当不少题目的论据)

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植物人PVS Terri   摘自 纽约客
MATTERS OF LIFE
Issue of 2005-04-04
Posted 2005-03-28
这个案子比较复杂~属于道德法律范畴~到现在涉及到了国会和总统的范畴 适用于几类题目
1道德应不应该教授
2法律正确与否
3这个案子发生在佛罗里达州~州长布什的弟弟~法律不允许安乐死~但是在德克萨斯州~当时布什签处了法律允许安乐死~
但是现在到了国家的层面~布什又来反对安乐死 领导人的诚信与否4这个案子涉及到另一个电影《深海长眠》<mar adentro>获得奥斯卡最佳外语片~可以扯到流行文化的层面
其他的大家可以在发掘一下~这个新闻在美国非常热

Last week, Theresa Marie Schindler Schiavo, known to cable-news viewers and talk-radio listeners as Terri, was as ubiquitous as Elián González and Laci Peterson once were. Yet she was also hidden, obscured behind layers of political and religious posturing, legal maneuvering, emotional projection, and media exploitation that swaddled her like strips of linen around a mummy.

Terri Schiavo was born on December 3, 1963, near Philadelphia, the first of three children of Robert and Mary Schindler. As a teen-ager, she was obese—at eighteen, she weighed two hundred and fifty pounds—but with diligence she lost a hundred pounds, and by the time she married Michael Schiavo, in 1984, she was an attractive and vivacious young woman. By the end of the decade, she had moved with her husband to Florida, was undergoing fertility treatments, and had slimmed down further, to a hundred and ten pounds. On February 25, 1990, Terri suffered cardiac arrest, leading to severe brain damage. The cause was a drastically reduced level of potassium in her bloodstream, a condition frequently associated with bulimia. Her death that day was forestalled by heroic measures, including a tracheotomy and ventilation. But when, after a few weeks, she emerged from a coma, it was only to enter a “persistent vegetative state,” with no evidence or hope of improvement—a diagnosis that, in the fifteen years since, has been confirmed, with something close to unanimity, by many neurologists on many occasions on behalf of many courts. The principal internal organs of Terri’s body, including her brain stem, which controls such involuntary actions as heartbeat, digestion, respiration, and the bodily sleep cycle, continued to function as long as liquid nourishment was provided through a tube threaded into her stomach through a hole in her abdomen. The exception was her cerebral cortex, which is the seat of language, of the processing of sense impressions, of thought, of awareness of one’s surroundings and one’s inner state—in short, of consciousness. Her EKG flatlined. The body lived; the mind died. “At this point,” the Florida Supreme Court wrote six months ago, “much of her cerebral cortex is simply gone and has been replaced by cerebral spinal fluid. Medicine cannot cure this condition. Unless an act of God, a true miracle, were to recreate her brain, Theresa will always remain in an unconscious, reflexive state.”

Terri Schiavo’s life, as distinct from the life of her unsentient organs, ended fifteen years ago. But that did not prevent her from becoming the star of an unusually morbid kind of reality TV show. The show was made possible by two factors. The first was a bitter struggle between Terri’s husband, Michael Schiavo, who wanted to allow her body to die in accordance with what he said, and what an unbroken series of court decisions has affirmed, was her own expressed wish, and her parents and siblings, who wanted to keep her body alive at all costs. The second factor was a set of video snippets, provided by the Schindler family and broadcast incessantly by the three cable news networks—CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC—which are themselves entangled in a desperate struggle for dominance. Sometimes the snippets are identified by the year of their taping (2001 and 2002); sometimes they are not. Sometimes they are accompanied by inflammatory captions (fighting for her life); sometimes the captions are merely dramatic (schiavo saga). They show Terri’s blinking eyes seeming to follow a balloon waved in front of her; or her mouth agape in a rictus that could be interpreted as a smile; or her face turned toward her mother’s, with her head thrown back, Pietà-like. As neurologists who have examined her have explained, the snippets are profoundly misleading. A few seconds of maximum suggestiveness culled from many hours of tape, they are more in the nature of special effects than of a documentary record. Without them, there would have been no show—and, most likely, no televised vigils outside her hospice, no cries of “murder” from Tom DeLay, the egregious House Majority Leader; no midnight special sessions of the House and Senate; no calling Dr. Frist for a snap video diagnosis; no visuals of President Bush returning from Texas to land on the White House south lawn, striding dramatically across the grass as if it were the deck of an aircraft carrier.

To read through the documents generated by the years of legal wrangling over Terri Schiavo is to be impressed by the thoroughness and conscientiousness with which the courts, especially the Florida courts, approached her case. On legal, substantive, and constitutional grounds, they seemed to have reason and justice on their side. Yet it was a cold sort of reason and justice. On a human level, it was hard to see what concrete harm there could be in indulging her family’s desire to keep her body alive, its care presumably underwritten by the hospice and the family’s supporters.

Meanwhile, the language of the debate over her fate, pitting a “right to die” against a “right to life,” turned rancid in its abstraction. Terri Schiavo, the person, had no further use for a right to die, because Terri Schiavo, the person, had long since exercised that right. Did it really matter if she had told her husband, when she was young and healthy, that she would not wish to live “that way”? Her body notwithstanding, she was not living “that way,” or any other way. By the same token, she had no use for a right to life, because her ability to benefit from such a right had long ago been rendered as moot as the legal pleadings on her alleged behalf would soon become.

As the week progressed, it was harder and harder to deny that the fervor of Terri’s Christianist “supporters” was motivated by dogmas unrelated to her or her rights. If she truly had a “right to life,” if removing her feeding tube was truly tantamount to murder, then neither the disapproval nor the approval of her family (or anyone else) could make the slightest moral difference. If her parents had agreed with her husband that the tube should be removed, would their acquiescence have somehow transubstantiated murder into mercy? And, with or without their acquiescence, if Michael Schiavo had spent the last ten years adhering strictly to the orthodox code of family values—if he had remained faithfully celibate, if he had not taken a mistress and had children with her—then might not some of those now accusing him of murder be demanding that his Biblically ordained husbandly authority be respected?

Terri Schiavo has become a metaphor in the religio-cultural struggle over abortion. This—along with the advantages of demonizing the judiciary in preparation for the coming battle over Supreme Court nominees—explains the eagerness of Republican politicians to embrace her parents’ cause. Her lack of awareness actually increased her metaphoric usefulness. Like a sixty-four-cell blastocyst, she was without consciousness. Unlike the blastocyst, she was without potential. If letting her body die is murder, goes the logic, then thwarting the development of the blastocyst can surely be nothing less.

Last weekend, as Good Friday gave way to Holy Saturday and Holy Saturday to Easter Sunday, Florida’s made-for-TV passion play neared its climax. The death of Terri Schiavo’s body will only enhance her symbolic value, elevating her to her destined place as another martyr in this dismal age of martyrs.
COMMENT
DEPT. OF TRANSPORTATION
DEPT. OF ENTOMOLOGY
MOSCOW POSTCARD   
— Hendrik Hertzberg

另外一件事情就是明尼苏达州校园枪击案 摘自纽约时报
Reservation Life Grinds Down Indian Youths
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: March 27, 2005
这个案子的主角是一个明尼苏达州的少年~印第安籍~1可以放在定义自己社团
2校园枪杀~个人责任和社会责任
3学校教育
4这个16岁少年特别喜欢希特勒~可以扯到历史类
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RED LAKE, Minn. (AP) -- The obituary in the small town paper was heartbreaking: Chase Albert ``Beka'' Lussier, born Dec. 23, 1989, died March 21 at Red Lake High School. A freshman who played basketball and loved computer games. Six paragraphs down, beside the photograph of a chubby-cheeked, smiling boy, came this sentence: ``He spent his time juggling life between his family and his son.''

A father at 15. Dead three months later. Shot with eight others by an alienated, despondent upperclassman who, at the end of his 10-minute walk through Red Lake High School, turned one of his guns on himself.

The deaths, conspicuous in their senselessness, highlight the problems that American Indian teenagers have been quietly suffering in greater numbers than most adolescents: suicide, violence, depression and pregnancy.

By themselves, the numbers for the Red Lake Indian Reservation are staggering. A state survey conducted last year of 56 ninth-graders showed that 81 percent of the girls, and 43 percent of the boys, had considered suicide.

Nearly half the girls said they'd actually tried to kill themselves. Twenty percent of boys said the same -- numbers about triple the rate statewide.

``I don't have an explanation for that,'' said Brenda Child, who teaches American Indian history at the University of Minnesota and grew up on the reservation. Her cousin, 14-year-old Ryan Auginash, was shot in the chest during 16-year-old Jeff Weise's march through the campus.

She doesn't want to view the shootings through the prism of American Indian troubles. ``I see it as a problem of a young man who was deeply depressed,'' she said. ``Sadly, that can happen anywhere.''

Here, where the Red Lake band of Chippewa has lived in isolation on more than 830,000 acres in northern Minnesota since 1889, such things are not openly discussed.

It simply is not their way. For much of the week, they slammed the door of their reservation to the prying eyes of television cameras and reporters who wanted to know why Weise shot his grandfather, a tribal policeman everyone knew as ``Dash,'' and the man's girlfriend, then drove to the high school entrance behind the wheel of his grandfather's police car. Weise, wearing his grandfather's gunbelt and toting a shotgun, opened fire at the front door, by the lone metal detector.

Tribal elders have said little, as have residents. Some students have been more open, describing Weise as a depressed, friendless boy who talked of shooting people.

On Web site postings, Weise described himself as ``nothing but your average Native-American stoner'' and described his life on the reservation as ``every man's nightmare. This place never changes and it never will.''

Weise had not always lived on the reservation. He arrived after his father committed suicide four years ago. His mother, a heavy drinker, was severely injured in an alcohol-related auto accident. The boy had nowhere else to go.

Some on the reservation say Weise had been seeing a professional and taking medication for his depression, which is evident on Internet postings such as this one, where under a section titled ``A Little About Me,'' he typed ``16 years of accumulated rage suppressed by nothing more than brief glimpses of hope, which have all but faded to black.''

On Thursday, outside the hospital in Bemidji, a small town 32 miles south of the reservation, Andrew Auginash was there to visit his wounded brother, Ryan. ``I don't want anything bad said about our reservation,'' he said. ``It's like any other place.''

The Minnesota survey of Red Lake students said they assaulted other classmates and used more alcohol and drugs than other students across the state.

Nationwide figures show that American Indian teenagers commit suicide at three times the national rate; are involved in alcohol-related arrests at twice the national average, and die in alcohol-related incidents at 17 times the national average.

They are third-highest in teen pregnancies, behind Hispanics and blacks.
``My mother moved us off the reservation when I was very young. And I am very glad she did that,'' says Bill Lawrence, publisher of the Native American Press-Ojibwe News, a 5,000-circulation weekly newspaper in Bemidji.

``The kids there come from drugs, alcohol, broken families, abuse,'' he says sadly. ``To grow up under these circumstances is a tremendous ordeal. And to consider suicide means you think there is no other way out.''

Lawrence is a member of the Red Lake band and has relatives and friends on reservation, he says. ``Only the most gifted students can overcome this stuff. A lot of kids don't go to school. About 50 percent don't graduate. How do you go on after that? They're not qualified to get a job or go to college.''

Sister Patricia Wallis has lived at the reservation, off and on, since 1951, working at a mission that has a school and convent. To Wallis, the problems here come from grinding, dehumanizing, relentless poverty.

``They're not able to succeed in school. If something happens, or someone dies, or there's been an accident, they don't come regularly. Some stay at home because they have to baby-sit their siblings or they have to help out.''

Another problem is housing, she said. There aren't enough places to live on the reservation, so families and cousins and children live crowded together in single homes. This has worsened lately, Wallis said, because many who left to make their way in the outside world are now returning in large numbers after failing to find any kind of work because they have no experience or training.

``When you put a lot of adults and children together in one house, you get bedlam,'' Wallis said. ``The children get no rest, they get no sleep, arguments break out between the adults and they come to school carrying all this.''

Wallis has not lost hope, and she is careful in choosing her words to describe life here for young people. ``I love these people with all my heart,'' she says.

Then she tells the story of a sixth-grade boy whose father got a new girlfriend. The woman didn't like the boy. ``She said ``Either he goes, or I go.' And guess who had to go? Now he's living with his cousins and he's suffering.''

The boy grew angry in class at the reservation, she said, and he was pulled out by his relatives and sent to public school.

Children and teenagers here, despite the isolation and the cultural importance of turning inward, have only to sign on to the Internet, or turn on the satellite TV, to see that other people, in places not that far way, have things they don't.

``If you've never really been loved, how can you love yourself?'' she asks. ``How can you make something out of yourself?''

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New Museum, Putting a Human Face on the Holocaust, Opens in Israel  
在自纽约时报 一个新的二战纪念馆
适合广泛用于历史类~
By STEVEN ERLANGER (NYT) 814 words
Late Edition - Final , Section A , Page 14 , Column 1

ABSTRACT - More than 40 heads of state and cabinet ministers, many from Europe, gather in Jerusalem for opening of new Holocaust museum at Yad Vashem; exhibits try to put human face on unimaginable horror, telling story of six million Jewish dead, names of half still unknown, through personal diaries, images and testimonies; photo; Prime Min Ariel Sharon, UN Sec Gen Kofi Annan and others speak; Mayor Michael Bloomberg leads US delegation (M)

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安徒生诞辰两百周年~想象文学可用
Denmark Fetes Andersen on 200th Birthday
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: April 3, 2005


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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- A young ice maiden, a little mermaid and an emperor without clothes reveled with royals and celebrities Saturday as Denmark marked the 200th birthday of Hans Christian Andersen, the fairy tale writer whose stories have become classics worldwide.

After a formal award ceremony in the town of his birth, the three-day celebrations were set to climax in a star-studded evening rock concert in the Danish capital, Copenhagen.

Worldwide, some 3,000 events -- from the unveiling of Andersen statues in Vietnam to fairy tale writing competitions in New York -- have been scheduled this year to honor the Danish author, famous for children's classics such as ``The Ugly Duckling'' and ``The Little Mermaid.''

Thousands of people lined the cobblestone streets of Andersen's birth town, Odense, on Saturday to welcome royals and celebrities, including crooner Harry Belafonte and British actor Roger Moore. They were invited to attend the festivities as goodwill ambassadors.

Children dressed as Andersen characters from ``The Ice Maiden'' and ``The Little Mermaid'' were among the throngs of Danes waving their red-and-white flag as the entourage of European royals, actors and sports stars arrived for a tour of the Andersen museum. The modern structure incorporates the low, half-timbered house where the writer lived as a child.

The dignitaries also attended an award ceremony during which American literary critic and scholar Harold Bloom received this year's Hans Christian Andersen Prize.

``The older I get the more and more I believe in ghosts. I suspect it may be present this afternoon -- Andersen's ghost,'' Bloom said in accepting the award at Odense's concert hall.

An honorary award was given to German writer and Nobel Prize laureate Gunter Grass.

The party returned to Copenhagen later Saturday for a concert featuring Tina Turner, Olivia Newton John, French musician Jean-Michel Jarre and American opera singer Renee Fleming.

The show was to be televised live to hundreds of millions of people worldwide.

The giant birthday bash ends Sunday with a reception in the capital's city hall.

The author's image is everywhere in Denmark -- on commemorative coins and postage stamps, on beer labels and dinnerware, as well as baby clothes -- all designed for the celebration.

Born on April 2, 1805, Andersen was the son of a charwoman and a shoemaker. He was a well-known novelist in Denmark during his lifetime, but his worldwide popularity as a fairy tale writer came after his death.

Many of Andersen's works have been adapted to film, including a 1952 musical classic starring Danny Kaye and the 1990s Disney's cartoon ``The Little Mermaid.''

http://www.andersen.sdu.dk/index_e.html