Word: mortalism
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...This mortal sin condemns him to hell, but he manages to survive and returns to earth. Though he’s been given a second chance at life, he can’t seem to ditch his self-destructive bent, courting danger as a freelance demon-hunter and smoking himself to lung cancer. Now, facing death a second time, he agrees to help the lovely but pushy detective Angie unravel her sister’s suicide...
...professors don’t scare easily. Though protected by life tenure and the prestige of an elite university, they are occasionally called to act at great risk to their sense of comfort. And rarely have they shown more courage, more disregard for personal convenience in the face of mortal danger, than in proposing a no-confidence motion in University President Lawrence H. Summers, to be voted on in an emergency meeting next week...
...national security, or at least the security of its regime. Iran's primary enemies - Israel and the U.S. - have nuclear capability, as does regional rival Pakistan. And the Iranian government is believed to have begun its nuclear quest in earnest during the 1980s, when the country was locked in mortal combat with Iraq - and Saddam Hussein had made no secret of his own nuclear ambitions...
...watched kung-fu movies on outdoor screens during temple festivals. Soon he was aping his heroes and studying gymnastics as well as Muay Thai, an ancient Siamese boxing discipline that is a kind of combination of karate and kickboxing. He worked as a stunt man, doubling Robin Shou in Mortal Kombat, before director Prachya Pinkaew saw a reel of Jaa's best stunts and built Ong-Bak around...
...nightclub in downtown Buenos Aires after a blaze killed at least 175 and injured more than 700. Interior Minister Aníbal Fernández said that four of the disco's six doors had been wired shut, snaring the mostly young clubgoers in what he called "a mortal trap." Fernandez also warned that the death toll was likely to rise. Thousands of people, many in their teens and 20s, had packed into the Cromagnon Republic disco to celebrate the end of the school year. The Argentinean rock band Los Callejeros was playing when the fire broke out. City authorities...