Word: die
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...Dole and Iowa Senator Charles Grassley tried to protect Ruan four separate times before forcing through an amendment specifically worded to benefit "a privately held truck-leasing company headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa," a persistence that led Iowa newspapers to call it "the tax break that would not die...
...season of Yom Kippur, when, according to Jewish tradition, our fates and fortunes for the coming year are determined. The prayers we recite on this holiest of days do not speak of housing lotteries or exam groups. "On Yom Kippur judgement is sealed: who shall live and who shall die: who shall rest and who shall wander; who shall be comforted and who shall be tormented," reads one of the more poignant prayers of the day. We are reminded that there are important and genuinely frightening life issues that we sometimes lose sight of in our daily routine...
...inheritance pattern of the disease dictated that any child the Abshires conceived would have a 1-in-4 chance of developing Tay-Sachs. As members of the Pentecostal Assembly of God, the couple could not countenance abortion, yet neither could Renee risk conceiving a child who might suffer and die as Maigon had. Still in their 20s, they opted for childlessness...
...possible Ebola-virus outbreak in the remote village of Mayibout, Gabon. It is hard to imagine a more frightening report: ever since the first known outbreak in 1976, the virulent Ebola virus has been near the top of every Central African's list of the worst ways to die. With the 1994 publication of the best seller The Hot Zone, that fear had gone global. The symptoms--catastrophic hemorrhaging, bloody diarrhea and the literal disintegration of one organ after another--were Ebola-like, all right. But the locals needed expert help to make sure. The U.N. organization rushed a team...
More Americans die from this disease each year than from any other condition, prompting physicians to explore a host of ways to keep hearts healthy. For patients whose only recourse is a heart transplant, one bold method, pioneered by a Brazilian surgeon, involves increasing the efficiency of the heart by cutting away a portion of the muscle of the left ventricle, the chamber from which blood is pumped to the rest of the body. Surgeons at several facilities in the U.S. have begun using the technique in trials and hope to improve on its current 40% death rate...