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Germany is shaken, Germany is stunned," said Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder at an ecumenical service held at the World Expo in Hanover. "Our respect goes to the dead, our sympathy to the relatives." The bishop of Hildesheim, Josef Homeyer, who co-conducted the service, said, "Our hearts are heavy. The shock of the sudden might of death oppresses us. We lack words of consolation...
...residents of Mönchengladbach, some 24 kilometers west of Dusseldorf and home to 13 of the Concorde victims, are in shock. The six couples and one child who died in the crash were all part of a group of 20 friends who regularly went on holiday together. They had booked the $11,000 luxury trip at the local travel agency Clemens. "It's incomprehensible," says Albert Kuenzel, one of the agency's employees. "We are deeply moved. Many [of these people] were regular customers, most of them of retirement age." His colleague Christian Stattrop adds in a tired voice...
Sepsis, which is what happens to the body when an infection goes bad, is one of mankind's oldest and most intractable foes. It attacks 500,000 Americans annually and kills nearly half of them; around the world, about 1,500 people die from septic shock every day. Now help may be on the way. A new drug has stopped the progression of sepsis in clinical trials of dangerously ill victims, while another shows promise of halting the disease before it gets out of control...
...body through wounds, burns or during surgery. But it is the body's overreaction to these toxins that really does the damage. The resulting massive inflammation, accompanied by blood clots in small blood vessels, damages tissues and organs and lowers blood pressure. In its most severe form, called septic shock, it shuts down vital organs...
Batterson: I've been going through this in my own estate planning right now, and it is quite a shock. The numbers that you're going to have to pay in taxes range from...