Word: tolls
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...meet E.U. human-rights standards (Poland joined the E.U. on May 1). The right-wing Law and Justice party submitted the motion following a series of high-profile murders. Surveys show that 77% of Poles support the death penalty for the most serious crimes. Mining Tragedy CHINA The death toll from a gas explosion in a coal mine in central Henan province continued to rise, with 77 confirmed fatalities and hopes fading of finding any of the 71 missing alive. China's mining industry is notoriously dangerous; 4,153 miners were killed in the first nine months of this year...
...Just because rowing is such a grueling sport, it can really take a toll on you not just physically but emotionally and spiritually,” he says. “I feel like I draw my strength from my relationship with God. If I didn’t have that relationship, I don’t think I would be able to do it and make it in the sport...
...this Red Sox celebration came after the seven-game American League Championship Series (ALCS) had already taken its toll on academic life...
...that credibility was already taking a beating. Every time Bush tried to regain his footing, he tripped over more bad news and more second guesses, including those from his own team. The military and civilian death toll in Iraq continued to climb, so that the recently optimistic Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi sounded darker about the prospects for stability any time soon. British hostage Kenneth Bigley was beheaded. It emerged that U.S. forces had found floor plans of schools in six American states on a computer disc in Iraq, which launched a round of newscasters interviewing school superintendents from Florida...
...Kremlin says it has launched a massive manhunt for Basayev, the Chechen guerrilla leader who has orchestrated a grisly terror campaign that includes, among other atrocities, hijackings, suicide bombings, the 2002 Moscow theater siege and the seizure last month of a school in Beslan, where the final death toll is expected to reach 500. But here in Dyshne-Vedeno, where the Russians have few friends and a senior army officer describes his troops' main role as "protecting themselves," there's little sign that the search is on. Basayev's former neighbors, comrades-in-arms and friends say he hides during...