Word: deaths
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JERUSALEM--Israeli police stormed the holiest Islamic site in Jerusalem and pursued hundreds of Palestinians who threw stones after Friday noon prayers. Meanwhile, Soldiers shot an Arab to death in the Gaza Strip...
Yesterday's death brings to 170 the number of Arabs killed since a rebellion began December 8 among the 1.5 million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, which Israel has occupied since capturing them from Jordan and Egypt in the 1967 war. An Israeli soldier and Jewish settler also have been killed...
...dropped my I.D. card and some pieces of scrap paper; he politely bent down and picked them up for me. But despite my mugger's charm and chivalry--it was the first time I was ever addressed as "ma'am"--I could not help fearing the worst: assault, rape, death...
...uniqueness as a species allows us to do as we please with animals that are used in research. The answer is no. Animals feel pain exactly as we do, and an abundance of intelligence or lack thereof has no bearing on the reality of pain, disease, suffering or death...
...prominent author and animal rights activist, Peter Singer, calls this bias `speciesism' and maintains that it is a form of prejudice no less reprehensible than racism or sexism. This is a fact which we should acknowledge, as speciesism is responsible for the suffering and death of more than 60 million animals every year through research alone...