Word: die
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...went pretty well. We were a little nervous of course, since Ozzy fans are obviously really die-hard and we were just the MTV guys. But when we played "Everything About You," we got a lot of response...
...faculty hiring and Latino studies has received much attention from administrators, students and faculty. It seems that many in the community believe that this is simply a phase in the Latino community--that soon enough, the students will drop the issue, stop bothering the deans and watch the storm die down...
...TRAGIC FACT OF LIFE IN THE U.S. IS THAT BLACK children under the age of one die at twice the rate of white infants. Much of the disparity in mortality can be traced to the large number of African-American babies who are born underweight, particularly those weighing less than 1,500 grams, or 3.3 lbs. As one might expect, figuring out why this occurs requires a closer look at maternal health. According to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine, very nearly all the excess mortality is directly related to four common pregnancy problems. Infection or rupture...
...State Department revealed evidence of yet another massacre by ethnic Serb forces of some 3,000 Muslims in the city of Brcko last spring. The approaching winter could exact a far worse toll. U.N. relief officials warned that as many as 400,000 people in Bosnia could die of exposure and starvation. Said Cedric Thornberry, civilian commissioner of U.N. forces in former Yugoslavia: "The world is not yet fully aware of the dimensions of what is staring it in the face...
More than 800,000 Americans derive their livelihood from tobacco-related jobs -- almost double the 435,000 that the Surgeon General estimates die each year from tobacco-caused disease. A ban on promotion would cost some of those jobs. Still, it's ironic that, as a society, we spend billions to keep people from breathing asbestos -- the EPA estimates 17 non-occupational asbestos- related deaths a year -- but billions more to promote smoking...