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...DIED Six weeks after a diagnosis of terminal cancer, Irish journalist and author Nuala O'Faolain confessed that life, for her, had lost its beauty. "There is an absolute difference between knowing that you are likely to die--let's say, within the next year--and not knowing when you are going to die," she said during a tearful radio interview. Ever unflinching in her writing, O'Faolain explored the struggle of growing up poor in mid-20th century Ireland in her first memoir, Are You Somebody?, before penning the novel My Dream of You, also set in her homeland...
...immediately retorted with a vigorous “No!”As the weary contestants slowly approached PfoHo, Tan clutched a garbage bag, but still refused to quit. “You can’t have a type-A Harvard student do this. Even if they die, they’re gonna finish,” she said. At one point, it looked as if the vomit is imminent. Maintaining her sense of humor, DeSantis noted, “That would’ve been a great shot.”Finally on the last...
Following a dramatic fall through the 20th century, the U.S. infant mortality rate - the proportion of babies who die before they reach their first birthday - has leveled off at just under seven deaths per 1,000 live births. That's a much higher rate than in other parts of the developed world. Across the European Union, for example, fewer than five in 1,000 babies die before they turn one. And in some stand-out countries like Japan, Singapore, Sweden and Norway, the proportion of babies who die is less than half that in the United States. Marian MacDorman...
...babies die more often than babies in other wealthy countries...
...what you'd call an accidental suicide attempt. Many suicides are accidental. There's a death wish, but it's fairly vague. It's different than actually trying to die. In that case, I was so manic that I was unaware that there would be consequences. That's one of the things about manic impulsivity - you can't associate your acts with the consequences. You think that when you're spending thousands of dollars, you will not go broke. You think that when you're driving 100 miles an hour, you're going a perfectly reasonable rate. You think that...