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That's why sounding the alarm about the impact of racism on health in the United States, the ongoing institutional and interpersonal violence that people of color face, compounded by our
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legacy of 250 years of slavery, 90 years of Jim Crow and 60 years of imperfect equality, sounding the alarm about this is central to doing my job right as New York City's Health Commissioner.
We mourn the
tragic
death of two-year-old Alan Kurdi, and yet, since then, more than 200 children have subsequently drowned in the Mediterranean.
So this, to me, is a
tragic
but a solvable problem.
I have seen the most hurtful, destructive,
tragic
infighting in LGBT and AIDS and breast cancer and non-profit activism, all in the name of love.
We've all heard the
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statistic of 22 vets a day, on average, in this country, killing themselves.
That complete meltdown was made even worse by the most
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element of it: levels of xenophobia and racist abuse in the streets of Britain at a level that I have never seen before in my lifetime.
And what we see around the world today is a
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polarization, a failure to have dialogue between the extremes in politics, and a gap in terms of that liberal center ground that can encourage communication and a shared understanding.
But in the same way that intersectionality raised our awareness to the way that black women live their lives, it also exposes the
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circumstances under which African-American women die.
An ingenious metaphor for this
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setting is the O-ring production function, named by Harvard economist Michael Kremer after the Challenger disaster.
What is even more
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is that we know about a bunch of other species of animals out there, but their biology remains sorely under-studied.
In the end what I know comes down to this: the
tragic
fact is that even the most vigilant and responsible of us may not be able to help, but for love's sake, we must never stop trying to know the unknowable.
This is a piece that I just recently completed about another
tragic
phenomenon.
And what's really
tragic
is that oftentimes there's no one profile.
Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a
tragic
harvest of heartache and death.
I witnessed scenes that were
tragic
and unreal, and only at the end did I realize that I had witnessed the slow preparation of ethnic cleansing.
Now, being a judge is sometimes like having a reserve seat to a
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reality show that has no commercial interruptions and no season finale.
You've just told us a different story of this
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arms race that's happening, and maybe whole ecosystems gone forever.
This
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discovery is just one of the many ways the health of aquatic animal communities can help us better understand Earth’s oceans.
Now, those losses are
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on many fronts, and one of those fronts is for the beekeeper.
And if we look at the history of lawns, it's actually rather
tragic.
I see that the world is jolted by events that are wonderful and terrible, gorgeous and
tragic.
Instead it plumbs the depths of its protagonist’s indecisiveness, and the
tragic
consequences thereof.
That is five or six women every hour having a blood clot, a seizure, a stroke, receiving a blood transfusion, having end-organ damage such as kidney failure, or some other
tragic
event.
With each person I filmed, I saw how their minds and hearts can be influenced by the propaganda, and how their willingness to make sacrifices for the greater good can be twisted into something very dark and
tragic.
My dear new friends ... (Laughter) My name is Eddie Jaku, and I'm standing in front of you today, a survivor of the Holocaust and a witness of the most
tragic
times in the history of mankind.
It was only after the war had ended that the authors’ identities, stories, and
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fate would come to light.
The Texas Tower murderer opened my eyes, in retrospect, when we studied his
tragic
mass murder, to the importance of play, in that that individual, by deep study, was found to have severe play deprivation.
While the book is set at the point of Rahel and Estha’s reunion, the narrative takes place mostly in the past, reconstructing the details around the
tragic
events that led to their separation.
Roy warns that the
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consequences of their relationship “would lurk forever in ordinary things,” like “coat hangers,” “the tar on roads,” and “the absence of words.”
Roy’s writing makes constant use of these ordinary things, bringing lush detail to even the most
tragic
moments.
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