Word: fatalities
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...after the Sept. 11 disaster—the first day in what they both come to recognize as an “entirely new calendar.” Begrimed and bloodied, a guilt-wracked Luke is desperately searching for the friend he was to meet that fatal morning when he is effectively saved by the “angelic apparition…whom, in his delirium, he’d briefly and wishfully imagined as the last woman on earth—or the first...
...shot selection was great, the shooting percentage was better, and the Harvard women’s basketball team owned nearly every statistical category—but a fatal case of butterfingers soured the Crimson’s upset bid at Brown on Friday night. Harvard (8-13, 4-4 Ivy) could only watch as Brown (14-8, 8-1 Ivy) poured in 30 points off 24 turnovers—19 in the second half—en route to a 66-61 comeback win in the final seven minutes. It was the second time a victory over the Bears eluded...
CLEARED. MERCK, multinational drugmaker; of responsibility for the death of Richard Irvin, a Florida man who had a fatal heart attack after taking the company's painkiller Vioxx for less than a month; in a federal court in New Orleans. Merck faces more than 9,500 lawsuits over the drug, which it pulled in 2004. The victory was Merck's first in federal court, following a loss and a win in state-court trials last year...
...Doctors at the Corpus Christi hospital will be watching to make sure Mr. Whittington does not develop ventricular fibrillation, a more serious type of irregular heartbeat that can be fatal within minutes. "It will stay a minor problem as long as the arrhythmia stays under control, the heart muscle hasn't suffered permanent damage, he doesn't have a further ongoing heart attack, and there's no fluid building up around the heart," says Dr. Soumi Eachempati, a trauma surgeon at New York Hospital in New York City. Assuming nothing else goes wrong, however, Whittington should be able...
...year of self-imposed exile in France to avoid imprisonment on charges of defaming the government; in Phnom Penh. Rainsy, who fled Cambodia last February after being stripped of his parliamentary immunity, was sentenced in absentia to 18 months in prison for linking Prime Minister Hun Sen to a fatal grenade attack at an opposition rally in 1997. Last week Rainsy received a pardon from King Norodom Sihamoni after issuing a statement expressing regret and pledging to temper his criticism of the country's leaders in the future...