Word: died
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Every year in the U.S. more than 1,000 children die from physical abuse, but Lisa Steinberg is the one whose name is stamped in the public mind. Though her short, unhappy life of six years was spent in a middle-class Manhattan household, it was in circumstances of stunning callousness and squalor. Joel Steinberg, 47, the disbarred attorney who illegally adopted her, spent days at a time in a cocaine stupor. His live-in companion Hedda Nussbaum, 46, was a former children's book editor with a boxer's dented profile, the result of years of beatings by Steinberg...
...That's what is called the organic fallacy: countries are not plants, they don't have life cycles that mean there is a time to die. There's no . reason we should be on a downward course...
...revolt abruptly ended the 34-year rule of Stroessner, an autocrat who had shown every promise of realizing the dream of all dictators: to die in bed, holding power to the end. There had been only the slightest intimations that Stroessner's days were numbered. Despite close personal ties between the two generals (Rodriguez's daughter is married to Stroessner's son), Rodriguez had quietly sided with a faction within the ruling Colorado Party that favors limited democratic reforms. As a result, Stroessner reportedly was on the verge of moving Rodriguez to a purely ceremonial position. Rodriguez, who has headed...
...Only when they first die," Jeff says. "They keep 'em in the fridge until they ship 'em to me. Then I freeze-dry 'em before they thaw out." Jeff gazes proudly at his model 48104 freeze-dry chamber that he purchased for $30,000 from a company in Minnesota. The cylindrical chamber, 4 ft. by 9 ft., is the sole possession of Jeff's Preservation Specialties, Inc., the company he operates out of a bare room in an industrial mall in Pinellas Park, Fla. The hulking chamber, with a glass window at one end, resembles those gadgets in science fiction...
...sobbing Imelda Marcos on the line with an urgent appeal from the hospital bedside of her husband, exiled former President Ferdinand Marcos. "The doctor told him he hasn't much time to live," she said to Laurel, pleading for permission for Marcos to return home so that he can die in his native land. After flying to Honolulu, where the Marcoses have lived since fleeing Manila in 1986, Laurel visited the ailing ex-President and agreed that he appeared to be hovering near death...