Word: eightfold
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...limited by the enforcement of strict building codes, some of them modeled after those in California. Still, a death toll of over 1,800 is high for a natural disaster in an industrialized country, and may provoke longer-term questions about patterns of development. "Natural disasters worldwide have increased eightfold since the 1970s, but there?s been very little concern for environmental issues in the rush to make money," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. "Events such as the Taiwan quake may prompt governments to think beyond the narrow concerns of the economy in approaching issues of development and urbanization...
...they can. In the first study to connect antibiotic resistance in humans directly with the food we eat, a group of Minnesota public health specialists reported in last week's New England Journal of Medicine that an eightfold increase in drug-resistant food poisoning among Minnesotans directly followed the approval and use of the same drug in chickens. While most of their patients got sick while traveling overseas--where overuse of antibiotics is even more widespread than in the U.S.--the scientists found evidence that the same thing is happening right here at home...
...desire," the mind's habit of seeing everything through the prism of the self and its well-being; that this craving can be transcended, leading to peace and eventually to an exalted state of full enlightenment called Nirvana; and that the means to do that lies in the Eightfold Path of proper views, resolve, speech, action, livelihood, effort, mindfulness and concentration...
...AIDS is now spreading faster in Asia than in any other part of the world. In the past year, the number of cases jumped eightfold, from...
...number of full-blown AIDS cases around the world rose from 2.5 million to 4 million during the past year. According to a new report from the World Health Organization, sub-Saharan Africa had the highest number of AIDS patients at 2.5 million, while cases in Asia spread eightfold, from 30,000 to 250,000--faster than anywhere else in the world. Worse, the WHO thinks between 30 million and 40 million people will have HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, by the year 2000.parpar