Word: died
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...Weiner, note that the generating ferment in English has shifted from the literary world toward those of science, business, medicine and North American slang. In fact, a partial listing of what the language has been up to lately is enough to inspire depression: brain-dead, nose job, right-to-die, acid rain, crack, heat-seeker, asset stripping, greenmail, petro-currency, barf, drunk tank. There is not much here that would inspire Keats to write...
...average day in Peru, six people die by political violence. One day it is a government agent organizing peasant cooperatives. One day it is a ruling- party mayor. One day it is a government-aligned journalist. Most days it is peasants...
Marx's sister, Jane L. Marx, 44, of New York City, said, "He didn't really die, he lived in anyone he ever touched." Memorial services will be held at the Boston Architectural center on April...
...their lives in order. Others might prefer not knowing anything at all. "We may be able to see into the future," says Doreen Markel, a genetic counselor at the University of Michigan's Neurology Clinic. "But ask yourself: Do you really want to know what you're going to die...
...possibilities for gene therapy will be limited for the near future. If gene transplants are performed on tissue cells -- bone-marrow cells, for instance -- the altered genes will die with the patient; they cannot be passed on to any children the patient might subsequently have. Someday, however, it may be possible to change genes in germ cells, which give rise to sperm or eggs. If that feat is accomplished, the new genes would be transmitted to one generation after another...