Word: die
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...Jackson spoke, there was nary a shut eye at the ARCO Forum. Jackson, who is president and founder of the Rainbow Coalition (please see profile, page B-5), drew large amounts of applause throughout his speech, pausing only to allow for occasional whoops and cheers of approval to die down...
Bone mass peaks around the age of 20 and declines over the years, so much that elderly bones can fracture easily. The consequences are not merely casts and crutches: about 25% of people with fractures of the hip die within a year because of complications, says Dr. Michael F. Holick, chief of endocrinology, nutrition and diabetes at Boston University medical center, and another 25% spend the rest of their life in nursing homes...
...often hire prostitutes. The manager of a Miami apartment complex once asked former Miami Beach geriatric counselor Vincent Delgado to speak to an 82-year-old woman who brought young men to her apartment for sex whenever she got her Social Security checks. "She said she was going to die anyway," Delgado said, "and to leave her alone and let her enjoy life...
...office, we call after-hours stock trading "the badlands." That's because anything goes--information is unevenly disseminated, and scalpers take advantage of any angle they can muster. If you are quick, you prosper; if you are slow, you die. Casualties are high. Now both NASDAQ and the New York Stock Exchange want you to venture into those badlands. Both exchanges made it clear last week that the 4 p.m. closing bell will signify nothing come fall. The markets will stay open till...
...sheep clones have little to worry about. While their truncated telomeres may burn down relatively fast, the animals are likely to die of natural causes before frayed chromosomes claim them. But if scientists ever get around to cloning humans, things could get stickier. You might end up with the worst of both worlds, says Thomas Murray of the Hastings Center, a New York-based think tank, "combining the inexperience of youth with the biology of the aged...