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...Lowdown:When a book opens with a paean to the wonderful smell of burning buffalo dung - "At times I've dipped my face into the smoke and picked up the odors of cinnamon and cloves, dried straw and pumpkins" - you know it's going to be a dirty read. But there's really no other way to talk about hunting, and Rinella's tale of tracking buffalo in Alaska is alluringly visceral in its description. His multichapter description of killing, skinning and chopping up a buffalo cow is alternately stomach-turning and riveting. It's easy to understand the allure...
...lowest. The rate rises again for kids 15 to 19, perhaps because of greater access to fireworks, gasoline and cooking materials. Once again, poorer countries are hit harder, with a rate 11 times higher than that of higher-income countries. In wealthier parts of the world, it's smoke inhalation, not the flames themselves, that causes the most deaths. For reasons not entirely clear, burns are the only type of injury that strike more girls than boys. Smoke alarms, childproof lighters and the establishment of dedicated burn centers are among the WHO's prescriptions...
...images out of Mumbai since Nov. 26 - a wild-eyed gunman in cargo pants and T shirt, black smoke engulfing the grand dome of the Taj Mahal Palace hotel, a cherubic toddler robbed of his parents - the one hardest to grasp is Mumbai without people. Driving toward south Mumbai on the morning after the attacks, the city's normally teeming streets were emptied of life. In one sense, this was lovely, if disturbing: you had unimpeded views of the city's stately colonial buildings, its stone-paved avenues and the glittering sea. But this absence of humanity also revealed...
...Edna Parker, 115, was the world's oldest person by 143 days. An Indiana farmer's wife who didn't drink or smoke, Parker worked as a teacher in a two-room schoolhouse until her marriage in 1913. She is survived by, among others, 13 great-great-grandchildren...
...serious trouble.”Singh jogged back to his hostel, and on his way, he saw ambulances and people with head wounds.After he returned, he later saw the attacks on the Taj Mahal Hotel.“There was a massive explosion that shook our chairs and smoke was billowing from the roof,” he said. As the Taj erupted in flames, Singh and his friends immediately boarded up all the windows facing the street, and turned out the lights. They stayed up all night listening to the news and trying to talk about other things, like...