That document states that to refuse a burdensome medical treatment is not the equivalent of suicide.

It's called the Gaokao, and 80 million high school Chinese students have already taken this grueling test.

Outside, you bugger . I answer in my exhausted teenager s voice Sir, my father must be worried sick .

Only when the importance of the task warrants the effort do we shift gear and deploy the System II heavy artillery.

Russia is no longer hampered by communist ideology and a cumbersome central planning system, and the likelihood of ethnic fragmentation, though still a threat, has waned.

Our country is still poor. It is confronted both with a heavy debt burden and a difficult struggle against diseases such as HIV AIDS and malaria that affect a large segment of the youth population.

Welby should not have been helped to die, they might argue, because he expressly said that he wanted to die, not that he wanted to avoid a burdensome treatment.

As it happens, the charges were duly dropped, and there the case might have rested if President Obama, tired and frustrated after weeks of fighting for his healthcare bill, had not weighed in on behalf of his friend Gates, and called the police stupid.

Their inadequacies embodied in a cumbersome system of governance, and in endless, inconclusive summitry and their lack of democratic legitimacy are being repudiated by millions of voters throughout the continent.

Achieving food security means ensuring that all people have consistent, affordable access to the right nutrients, despite land and water limitations, climate change, and the growing prevalence of resource intensive Western style diets that accompany rising incomes.