Word: die
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...flap has masked the fact that the book does expose some embarrassing exaggerations in feminist literature, along with much p.c. silliness on the part of Sommers' academic feminist colleagues. Most strikingly, it debunks author Naomi Wolf's assertion that 150,000 American women die each year in a "holocaust" of anorexia; the number is closer to 100. Similarly, Sommers claims that feminists exaggerate the extent of rape, wife battering and discrimination against girls in the classroom. She criticizes a much publicized study finding that girls' self-esteem plunges at puberty. For one thing, the same study finds that black girls...
...wound on the back of her leg reeking of gangrene. Her name is Faida, her eyes are empty, waterless like the rest of her body, and Isabel can not find a vein to insert the intravenous tube that could save her. "The blood vessels close down as they are dying," she explains, failing to find a vein on one arm and trying the other. The girl resists: "Leave me alone." Isabel withdraws. "This one wants to die," she says, and the wound will kill her anyway...
...woman at the camp gave birth four weeks prematurely. Early the next morning the mother seemed alert as a nurse set up a drip to treat her cholera; but she continued to bleed, and died before noon. Her husband arose and left, and the baby, still caked with blood, was left alone on the mat. "Without breast-feeding she is going to die," said one relief worker, swaddling the baby in a cloth wrap and leaving her in a cardboard box in the corner of a tent...
...know they cannot. Every minute another patient arrives, calling for help, for water, and then giving up and settling helplessly on the ground, staring at the few workers who bustle around. At the rate the disease is spreading, between 7,000 and 70,000 are almost certain to die in coming days. "I've never seen anything like it," said Dr. Koen Henckaerts. "But then I haven't seen a million refugees either...
President Clinton said he'll ask Congress for $320 million more in aid for Rwanda's dying refugees -- bringing the U.S. contribution up to almost $500,000. Clinton's also set to send 200 U.S. troops to the Rwandan capital to set up an operations base at the airport. The president said the American humanitarian effort won't cease "until the dying stops and the refugees have returned." Two thousand refugees die every day. Administration officials said the operation could create a corridor of waystations to help refugees returning from Zaire, if the first two weeks go well...