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...always reimagining whole cities along utopian lines, but the road to utopia has a way of becoming the path to hell. Think of Le Corbusier's Radiant City. His prescription for the ideal urban plan, isolated towers on wide plazas, turned out to be a blueprint for the deadliest kind of downtown and the worst sort of housing project...
...Deaths expected this year from lung cancer, the deadliest form of the disease...
TIME's story on the GREAT HANSHIN EARTHQUAKE of 1995 documented a disaster that left 6,400 dead and 300,000 homeless. It was the deadliest earthquake to hit Japan in 72 years...
...accelerated to about 70 km/h, and within minutes the fire had broken free. By the end of the day, nine people - including four children trapped in cars - would be dead, and at least 80 homes, tens of thousands of farm animals and 80,000 hectares destroyed in Australia's deadliest bushfire since...
...that the Mediterranean diet, and olive oil in particular, could help us live longer by reducing the risk of cancer and other diseases. Now a team from Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago appears to have identified precisely how olive oil helps fight one of the deadliest scourges: breast cancer. The researchers tested the effect of oleic acid - a monounsaturated fatty acid found principally in olive oil - on breast cancer cells. Their findings, published online by the Annals of Oncology, show that oleic acid cuts levels of a cancer-causing gene called her-2neu...