Word: die
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...children began asking Ryan, 'Are you afraid to die?' And Ryan responded, 'Everyone's going to die. If I die, I know I'm going to a better place.' I believe that God gave us ((a)) miracle in Ryan. He healed a wounded spirit in the world and made it whole...
RELIGION: Will Christianity's first churches die...
...estimated 100,000 of the mammals die annually when they are inadvertently trapped in tuna nets. Most of the slaughter is in the eastern Pacific from Chile to Southern California, where, for reasons still unknown to biologists, dolphins tend to school with yellowfin tuna. The dolphins fall prey to the purse-seine method of netting, in which fishermen cast a large net around a school of tuna and then pull it taut like the drawstring of a purse. The canners said last week they will no longer accept tuna caught in the region unless it has been harvested without snaring...
...executives in the television commercial are grim. "We need more smokers!" growls the tough-talking boss of a tobacco firm. "Every day 2,000 Americans stop smoking. And another 1,100 also quit. Actually, technically, they die. That means that this business needs 3,000 fresh new volunteers every day. So forget about all of that cancer, heart disease, emphysema, stroke stuff! Gentlemen, we're not in this business for our health!" And with that, the businessmen erupt in gales of sinister laughter...
Without such personal contacts, experts say, stereotypical images emerge. A child can become afraid of older people because he thinks they are going to die. But by spending time with the elderly, kids learn to accept the frailty of the aging while discovering their strengths. In one Pennsylvania program toddlers from a local day-care center spend time with Alzheimer's patients after being read such books as Grandpa Doesn't Know It's Me. Youngsters also learn that death is a natural component of life. Generations Together, for example, is developing a curriculum dealing with separation and loss...