There is every reason to believe that the Guantánamo military authorities are serially breaching medical ethics in forcibly feeding dozens of mentally competent (though clearly desperate) detainees.
He seemed to me so mentally active, though, that I wondered, great an actor as he is, whether acting would be enough for him — whether he wouldn't burst the bonds and want to direct and write and run for President.
He seemed to me so mentally active, though, that I wondered, great an actor as he is, whether acting would be enough for him whether he wouldn't burst the bonds and want to direct and write and run for President.
Earlier this year, the Supreme Court outlawed executing the mentally retarded, though not the mentally ill.
Karolyi said Wieber stood out because she was so intense, so businesslike and so strong — both physically and mentally — even though she was so young.
Mr. Trotter failed to pursue or present evidence that his client was mentally retarded, though he had a competency report in hand that said as much.
Notably, the governor and the Legislature could not come to terms on a bill to tighten regulation of the state's adult homes for the mentally ill, though all sides generally agreed on the needed changes.
This is partly because the mentally retarded, though perhaps capable of distinguishing between right and wrong sufficiently to stand trial, cannot be said to be among the most morally culpable criminals, deserving the ultimate penalty.
At high speeds, both tools are mentally taxing, though R.S.V.P. — which allows readers to keep their eyes completely still, eliminating the time-consuming process of scanning them across the page and "fixating" on individual words — is also strangely passive; more than one person I've let sample ReadQuick has remarked that it feels a little like watching TV.
Dr. Crenner, who is chairman of the department of history and philosophy of medicine at the University of Kansas Medical Center, and president of the American Society for the History of Medicine, said it was already widely recognized that Mrs. Lincoln was mentally ill, though the exact nature of her illness was not known.
