Word: die
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Some day soon the track at Olympic Stadium will be sold off. The stadium, after all, is being converted into a baseball park, and in keeping with the never-say-die spirit of commerce shown by the Games of Atlanta, an auction will be held for sections of the vulcanized rubber track that produced two world records, 13 Olympic records and countless dramas. What are we bid for the finish line of Lane...
Will we ever get a reprieve from this pain, from this madness? One must hope. I try to tell my sister that more people die in cars than in planes and that she shouldn't be scared to fly to Chicago next month to visit relatives. But I don't sound very convincing. The violence is too real, too omnipresent, too simple...
Cameras could not penetrate the imagination either. "Did I know anyone on that flight?" "Maybe I'll cancel my trip to El Paso." "How exactly does one die in an airplane crash?" "How long are you conscious?" "They'll show the families soon. How will they bear it?" "We went to Paris once. Remember the exhilaration when the plane surged...
...procedure appears to solve a medical Catch-22. Although the transplantation of bone-marrow cells can restore the immune system of a child suffering from leukemia, hundreds of children in the U.S. die each year for lack of a suitable donor--this despite the fact that more than 2 million Americans have volunteered. The problem is that bone-marrow transplants require a far more precise match of tissue types--measured by six different genetic identity markers--than, say, heart or kidney transplants...
...useful glimpse into the netherworld of post-contemporary wordsmithery. Control freak is here, as are dream team, deadbeat dad, drive-by (shooting), granny dumping, latte, managed care, mosh pit, outsource (but not downsize) and wellness. Tattered cliches like reality-based, reality check and wake-up call, alas, refuse to die. Beyond the dread Addenda, Birnbaum says, the dictionary is sound and scholarly, comprising more than 315,000 entries (1,500 of them updated), with etymologies aplenty, regional variations and usage guides. Dictionary lovers should find the contents illuminating, despite depressing evidence that the English language is getting a severe dumbing...