Word: fatalism
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...holds a truly terrible potential if it were allowed to grow. If these people manage to get to Iraq and learn how to wage jihad, we risk seeing them return to continue in Europe." Police suspect the two men nabbed in Germany were preparing to stage a fatal car accident in Egypt so one of them could collect on life insurance policies worth just over j830,000. German federal prosecutor Kay Nehm said the money would have funded attacks in Iraq. Prosecutors also allege that one of the men tried to buy 48 g of enriched uranium in Luxembourg...
...phone in case he ran into trouble. Instead, he climbed to the top of the medieval stone wall that surrounds Hondarribia's old quarter and threw himself off. He died instantly. Variations on Ceberio's story are playing themselves out with depressing regularity across Europe, though only rarely with fatal results. While the relentless teasing, harassment and violence that constitute bullying are not new, the behavior is growing both more pervasive and more emotionally and physically aggressive - and it is affecting increasingly younger children. In Spain around 7% of kids between 9 and 16 are victims of extreme bullying...
...fatal flaw of former Mets GM Steve Phillips was his refusal to rebuild, his stubborn belief that the team would contend and reach greatness with one or two added pieces. He didn’t grasp the concept that baseball isn’t like the NBA, where two superstars can turn any last-place team into championship material. Baseball teams can’t be fixed so easily. Successful teams build from the ground up and then fill in the pieces...
Filling a prescription at the beginning of the month could be bad for your health. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, analyzed more than 130,000 fatal prescription-drug poisonings and found that they spiked during the first few days of each month--when government assistance checks arrive in the mail. Part of the blame, say the study's authors, may be the increased workload--and higher error rates--as patients flock to their pharmacies...
...sick or wounded, they ferry as many as possible to the field hospital. "We're seeing a lot of dehydration, diarrhea, lacerations and people missing limbs," says Kenny Rowe, a petty officer on a Seahawk. "We've got people with gangrene and other infections that could be fatal that haven't been treated for a week." Back at the airport, a few C-2 Greyhound transport planes load up with rice and carry it in. "Right now rice is gold to these people," says Rowe...