Word: dying
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Hussein takes it all philosophically. "When your time comes to die, you die," he says. "It is God's will." To even up the odds a bit, he wears a .38 pistol tucked in his belt or an armpit holster under his coat. But he obviously enjoys danger. His once cherubic face is now deeply lined, and his hair is flecked with grey, but his sturdy arms and legs are hard with the muscles of a sportsman. He is an inveterate hunter, horseman, scuba diver and deep-sea fisherman. He introduced water-skiing to Jordan, then took up kiting...
...those of 16,377 live births that occurred in Britain in the first week of March 1958. The results: pregnant women who are moderate smokers (one to nine cigarettes a day) are 20.8% more likely than the average of all pregnant women to bear dead babies or babies who die soon, and heavy smokers (ten cigarettes a day or more) are 25.9% more likely...
Brazil's many and mighty rivers offer a wealth of power-producing capacity, but less than 10% of the country's hydroelectric potential is utilized. Even major cities suffer from a severe kilowatt lag. In Rio de Janeiro, lights often flicker-and sometimes die-and Säo Paulo's massive industrial complexes are perennially pestered by a shortage of juice. Prospects are brighter: a giant project abuilding in south-central Brazil will help illuminate some of the country's dark corners and produce a stream of electricity for its cities...
...what a person can do, a person ought to do." It is said that mankind's strongest drives are sex, hunger, and self-preservation. But there are some people for whom conscience is just as strong, or stronger--at times terrifyingly strong. Antigone is one such; she prefers to die rather than to try to live with a guilty conscience and with compromise...
...instead of a Sophoclean serenity she is seized with anguish. She is not so concerned with the eternal repose of Polyneices as with the right to dissent when conscience dictates. She tells Creon, "I am not here to understand.... I am here to say no to you, and die." But she is not against Creon personally so much as against the society he represents...