Word: bottomly
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...readers to believe that Ebola posed a looming threat to human existence. The truth is, however, that since the first recorded human cases in the 1970s, only a few hundred people have died from it. Of all the diseases you need to be afraid of, Ebola is near the bottom of the list. Unless, that is, you're a gorilla. Over the past decade or so, tens of thousands of the great apes have died of Ebola in central Africa, along with similar numbers of chimpanzees. That the disease was responsible was established in a paper published in December...
...safety; in 1989, 96 Liverpool fans were crushed to death on an over-crowded terrace at the Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield. Financially, too, the game was a mess. Most top-flight team owners poured money into their local team in the hope of boosting their social standing, not its bottom line. Even Manchester United, English football's most successful team in the last decade, was led through much of the '60s and '70s by an enterprising local butcher. (Not so these days: U.S. tycoon Malcolm Glazer, owner of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers National Football League franchise, swallowed the club...
...rights in the NFL is split evenly between all 32 teams, half of domestic rights in the Premier League are divided according to the number of times a team is aired and its final league position. The result: the top club pockets almost twice the amount that the bottom team does - and only the top few clubs access money-spinning European club competition the following season. In the U.S. there are mechanisms such as salary caps in place to ensure a competitive balance, but there's no sign of anything like that in the Premiership. "What we have is almost...
...last segment where the identity took on an aggressive feel. Headlines such as “A B-average puts the student in the bottom third of the class,” “Asian at home-American outside,” and “Jumped to her death from a Manhattan building two months later” appeared on a blue screen as “Gangster’s Paradise” blared in the background...
...belt and shoes and responsibly removing my laptop from its case, I resigned myself to my fate. A hidden metal button on the hip of my jeans caused the security guards to charge me down with batons in hand, while simultaneously the miniscule tube of chapstick from the very bottom of my rather large backpack got confiscated for being a potential bomb. I decided that the day had already gone so wrong that it couldn’t possibly get any worse. The flight would be fine, I’d get some school work done, and maybe I would...