Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cholesterol levels by around 4%, but levels in the men who also received the drug fell by 18% to 25%, with the sharpest decline coming in the first year of treatment. Analyzing the findings, researchers found that the bigger the drop in cholesterol, the lower the incidence of both fatal and nonfatal heart attacks. When the cholesterol level was reduced by 25%, the risk of heart disease was cut by 50%. The group on medication also had 20% fewer episodes of angina and 21% fewer coronary-bypass operations to restore the free flow of blood to the heart...
...writer that he became finally and truly lost. In almost all of his 17 novels he exhibited a fatal temptation to play the philosopher, to make a large statement. He described his 1950 drama Burning Bright, which closed on Broadway after only 13 performances, as "a morality play, completely timeless and placeless." He translated and retold Arthurian legend and once proposed collaborating with Director Elia Kazan in staging modern versions of Greek tragedy...
...their livestock. At least 20% of the continent is desert; experts believe that the process of "desertification" could encompass 45% of Africa in 50 years if current patterns of land use are allowed to continue. Famine and pestilence plague hundreds of thousands of Africans. Livestock diseases like rinderpest, a fatal viral infection known as "the cattle plague," and human maladies like malaria, cholera and bilharziasis, a water-borne urinary-tract disease, are on the rise...
...doctors discovered that the pale and distressingly listless baby had CF. The disease strikes one in 1,000 children, is always fatal, but ravages its victims first. Girls suffer more than boys and die at a faster rate. To prolong Alex's life, Deford and his wife Carol daily had to hold her upside down and pound her chest and back to loosen the life-threatening mucus in her lungs. "Two thousand times I had to beat my sick child," her father recalls, "make her hurt and cry and plead - 'No, not the down ones, Daddy...
Blythe does not deny that country living can brutalize, but he sees no alternative for those who suffer, as he does, from "the fatal involvement, the need to remain." Nor does he think that modern gadabouts are really making a getaway. For all his engines of mobility, a man remains buried in his body as irrevocably as a turnip in a garden. And so this home county of the flesh is where Blythe finally arrives in his search for the ultimate landscape...