Word: die
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John G. O'Brien, the chief executive officer of the hospital, said that he thought that if this project were not carried out, "Cambridge Hospital would wither and die over time...
Patients, who become progressively weaker as the disease proceeds, often die of pneumonia or asphyxiation, and often suffer severe emotional disturbances...
...scientists from 13 institutions had identified the gene that, when faulty, is responsible for at least some cases of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, the untreatable degenerative nerve disorder that crippled and eventually killed Lou Gehrig, the New York Yankee first baseman. Victims of "Lou Gehrig's disease" usually die because of fast-spreading paralysis in as little as three to five years. A small percentage of ALS sufferers, including famed British physicist Stephen Hawking, manage to survive for decades, mentally alert but trapped in a completely immobilized body. The new finding, reported in the journal Nature, could someday result...
...connection, they remain doggedly -- and sometimes miserably -- driven by their desire. In It's Probably Me, the narrator clings to a one-sided relationship in a world that's "gone crazy and makes no sense . . . If there's one guy who'd lay down his life for you and die/ It's hard to say it/ I hate to say it, but it's probably me." In an age that has slipped its moral tracks, Sting seems to say, love is the only thing worth fighting...
...during clear-cutting of timber on government land. In reality, one shot depicted a different forest while another showed fish that were not dead, only stunned by researchers for testing. In the most dramatic act of contrition, NBC News president Michael Gartner acknowledged that the GM controversy would not die and abruptly resigned last week, saying he hoped to "take the spotlight...