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...latest estimates show just how widespread that problem is. In 2007 there were 12 million new cancer cases worldwide, a record high; in 2000, the number was 10 million and in 1975 it was 5.9 million. Of the new cases last year, nearly half struck in developing countries. If these trends continue, health officials predict that by 2030, 17 million people will die worldwide of cancer, and 75 million people will be living with the disease and require treatment and follow-up care. That makes cancer the leading killer in the world, claiming more lives than AIDS, TB and malaria...
...about a total of 10 minutes. Each time Harvard scored to take the lead, the Fighting Sioux responded with goals of its own to swing the momentum of the game back its way. Case in point: although the Crimson scored eight seconds into the third period, North Dakota struck just five minutes later to come back to win the match by scoring twice within 90 seconds...
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...nation of muscle-devourers, confining our carnivorous activities to the brown stuff that came in neat, little polystyrene trays with some cling-film over the top of it to make it look neat and tidy," he says. Many types of offal, especially brains, were banned when mad-cow disease struck in the late 1990s. Day says the revival now might be a sign of people yearning for more traditional dishes. "The English are only just growing up about food," he says. "They're only just discovering food." Or rediscovering...
...cities first - because that's where people generally travel - and then spreads to surrounding areas. The last major pandemic occurred in 1918 when an Influenza A strain jumped from birds to humans and killed an estimated 20-40 million people (3% of the world's population). The pandemic struck during World War I and warring nations worried that the enemy might use the virus to its advantage, so most news reports of the outbreak were censored. Spain remained neutral during the war, and its accounts of the virus's horrific symptoms caused the illness to be nicknamed the "Spanish...