Word: die
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...shooting, the Pentagon suspended such military border operations on July 29. And despite the grand jury's exoneration of Banuelos, the patrols may be halted for good. "Is it fair to the Banueloses of the world--who joined the Marines knowing they may go fight in a war and die--that in the conduct of their duties they could end up spending their life in jail for murder?" asks a top Pentagon antidrug official. "We're giving this a real hard look now, and I don't think these kinds of missions will resume...
...vast majority of the thousands of people I saw were thin and in some cases mildly emaciated, even in the capital, Pyongyang, where more food is allotted to the populace than in the countryside. The officials refuse to discuss the UNICEF estimate that 80,000 children may soon die. They will say only that the famine is responsible for at least several dozen deaths caused by disease. They claim they are unable to provide a precise death toll...
...admission as Big Tobacco is ever likely to make, but Bible still scurried to cover his tracks. Cigarettes, he added, are "certainly not pharmacologically addictive," just behaviorally so. Rather like Gummi Bears, one Philip Morris exec has said. Perhaps he should tell that to the 450,000 Americans who die each year from smoking- and secondhand smoke-related diseases. If Gummi Bears kill, it's yet to hit the headlines...
...WHAT HAPPENS] Max has a clown mask put on his head; then he's roped to a horse and sent into the desert to die...
...FATE WORSE THAN DEATH As if nursing homes don't already have a bad reputation, nearly a third of seriously ill patients in hospitals report they would rather die than wind up in one permanently...