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...sort of benchmark. Adams cites as an example the statistical fact that a young man is 100 times more likely to be involved in a severe crash than is a middle-aged woman. Similarly, someone driving at 3:00 a.m. Sunday is more than 100 times more likely to die than someone driving at 10:00 a.m. Sunday. Someone with a personality disorder is 10 times more likely to die. And let's say he's also drunk. Tally up all these factors and consider them independently, says Adams, and you could arrive at a statistical prediction that a disturbed...
...that my apartment is the only bad one.”Shapiro also speculated that those who would benefit most from the land swap—the elderly, she claimed—are those least inclined to express their support.“They are ready to die. I don’t want to die yet,” she said.Sanchez claimed, however, that residents against the proposed move also faced obstacles in voicing their views.“[For] the people that are disabled and unable to come, elderly and unable to come, who because of work...
John and Maxine Cail had been happily married for 53 years when Maxine died after a stroke earlier this year. "Her death wasn't a surprise, and I handled everything right after the funeral with ease," says John, 74, a retired health-care worker in Nashville, Tenn. But five weeks later, he woke up one morning and began to sob. "My world had caved in, and I wanted to die," he says. As the tears flowed, he wondered how he could go on without his best friend and the love of his life...
...example, probably because it's such a good one. Behind the wheel, we're in charge; in the passenger seat of a crowded airline, we might as well be cargo. So white-knuckle flyers routinely choose the car, heedless of the fact that at most a few hundred people die in U.S. commercial airline crashes in a year, compared with 44,000 killed in motor-vehicle wrecks. The most white-knuckle time of all was post--Sept. 11, when even confident flyers took to the roads. Not surprisingly, from October through December 2001 there were 1,000 more highway fatalities...
...pessimistic too, but unlike the militants who now rule his village and hundreds like it, he believes more violence will solve nothing. "Part of me wants to avenge my father's death. But another part tells me that, when these men die, God will punish them for what they have done...