Word: fatalism
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...mail advised that smoking marijuana laced with other drugs can prove dangerous and even fatal...
...Ming was five when he arrived at Shaolin in 1969. He had suffered a near-fatal illness and his parents, believing he owed his recovery to Buddha, sent him to become a monk. It was a perilous time to join a monastic order. Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution was in full swing and the temple's remaining handful of monks were so busy fending off gangs of marauding Red Guards and writing self-criticisms that they had little time for new disciples...
...small now," he says, squaring his tiny shoulders. "But I will be big when I shoot the Taliban who killed my aunt and uncle." By avenging their deaths, Najibullah is carrying on family custom. His father tracked down the Soviet platoon that killed relatives in the 1980s and lobbed fatal grenades at their encampment. "If I am murdered by the Taliban, then my sons will honor my name by killing the enemy," says the prepubescent Najibullah. Despite hopes for peace, some Afghan traditions may be impossible to break...
...Noted "I don't have anthrax ... I don't have anthrax ... I don't have it." George W. Bush, U.S. President, affirming three times in the course of a press conference that he has not been infected by the potentially fatal bacterium...
...Clues from the Nguyen case may well prove crucial to unraveling the widening anthrax mystery. As the fourth fatal instance of the disease, Nguyen's illness and death set off new alarms and raises increasingly urgent questions: Where is this bacteria coming from? How is it being distributed among people who do not handle mail on a regular basis...