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Prior to 9/11, the greatest disaster in the city’s history was the
death
of more than 1,000 people after the steamboat the General Slocum caught fire and sank in New York's East River on June 15, 1904.
Last year, the atheist blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider was, like Roy, hacked to
death
in Dhaka.
The novelist Taslima Nasrin went into exile in 1994 to escape
death
threats from Islamist radicals; she now lives in Delhi.
The Islamists, however, want the government to pass a blasphemy law like that in Pakistan, which decrees
death
for religious dissent.
But chronic disease soon became a wider public-health issue as the
death
toll from cancer, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes seemed to rise.
Filling in
death
certificates is not an exact science, and doctors focus on causes with which they are familiar.
In the process, it is managing the singular feat of glorifying Somali peasants while starving them to death, and blowing up Somali youth hoping to secure an education abroad.
Death
rates for young girls are much higher than for boys.
Gehrig suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the most common motor-neuron disease (MND) – a degenerative disorder characterized by the
death
of the nerve cells by which the brain activates muscles to perform any activity, from swallowing to walking.
In the 1950s, a type of MND was the leading cause of
death
in Guam natives, killing one in five adults.
When Leaders Are True to Their LiesHANOI – What does the Venezuelan domestic payments crisis have in common with the
death
of the North American Free Trade Agreement, announced by Wilbur Ross, US President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to be the next US Secretary of Commerce?
Man’s Fate/Man’s HopeFor quite a while now—certainly since the terrorist attacks on the US of September 11, 2001, and before as we watched the slaughters in Kosovo, Sarajevo, Srebrenica, Rwanda, and Congo on our televisions—the news has been dominated by war and rumors of war, by violent
death
and threats of violent
death.
I do not want anyone to forget that over less than half of the years contained in the past century—from the outbreak of World War I to the famine that followed Mao’s “Great Leap Forward”—about one in every ten people alive on this planet was shot, gassed, stabbed, burned, or starved to
death
by his or her fellow human beings.
Before his death, with ample time to contemplate the past, my grandfather concluded that his greatest achievement was not his denunciation of Stalin's crimes but, in fact, his own dismissal from the Kremlin leadership by means of a simple vote.
In the 1960s Khrushchev's political
death
didn't become a physical one, as it certainly would have been in the 1930s.
Nevertheless, Khrushchev regretted his lack of courage and wished he had used his time to push his "thaw" ahead, so that even political
death
would be optional.
Death
and disappearance are no longer the only options.
Political
death
is now a matter of choice.
Former Prime Minister Menachem Begin also lived until his
death
in a simple apartment in Tel Aviv.
Some 2,000 Shia pilgrims gathered near the mosque that houses the Prophet’s tomb for the commemoration of Mohamed’s death, an act of worship that the ruling Saudi Wahhabi sect considers heretical and idolatrous.
A Yukos AutopsyYukos, once Russia’s leading oil company and a favorite of international investors, is in its
death
throes.
So, as it stands now, regulators need to preempt bankruptcy, not rely on it, because as soon as any failed financial firm files for bankruptcy, it has signed its own
death
warrant.
Since malaria kills between 1 and 2 million people per year, this amounts to around $40 - $80 of research spending per malaria
death
per year.
This level of spending (per death) is a tiny fraction of the research spending on "rich-country" diseases, such as asthma.
Arguments, like the one over Iraq, should not sound the relationship's
death
knell, but must be managed in such a way as to inflict the minimum of harm on the partnership.
The girl was burned to
death
soon after – and some believe as a penalty for – reporting the rape.
Her
death
would have added just one more individual to the tens of thousands who have already been killed in terrorist attacks across the country.
Fortune, for example, once entitled a cover story "The
Death
of Hong Kong."
Upon Nadir Shah’s
death
in 1747, the diamond fell into the hands of one of his generals, Ahmad Shah Durrani, who became the Emir of Afghanistan.
He bled to
death
in front of his pregnant wife, Zainab, and us before he was dumped behind the house.
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