Word: tolls
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...death toll from last Friday's subway bombing could have been much higher but for the heroics of the train's driver, Vladimir Gorelov, who slammed on the brakes and contacted engineers to shut the power off so that people could get out of the train without risking electrocution. Some 500 people escaped. Despite the darkness, fire and the acrid smoke, witnesses said passengers were remarkably calm...
...recent advertising downturn clearly has taken its toll. Ad pages at Forbes magazine fell 49% between 2000 and last year. In an interview with TIME, Kip Forbes, the third eldest of the siblings (there are four brothers and a sister), dismissed speculation that the flagship might be listing. He conceded that revenue for Forbes Inc. was down in 2003 from the previous year but said there was "no connection" between the Faberge egg sale and the tough business climate that has depressed revenue at all business publications, from the Wall Street Journal to TIME's sister publication Fortune. Without elaborating...
...America has a stroke; every three minutes, someone dies of one. That translates into 700,000 strokes and 165,000 deaths each year, making ischemia (the technical term for the most common type of stroke) the nation's No. 3 killer. Even among survivors, strokes can exact a terrible toll: aftereffects range from difficulty walking, speaking and carrying out the everyday activities of life to depression and paralysis...
Alcalay is now 86 years old. He has a wide face and frame and white hair that encircles his large head in a cloud-like wisp. Some years ago he had a double bypass, and the steady toll of macular degeneration over the years have made him legally blind. He reads with the aid of a scanning device that magnifies words from a page on a television monitor, each word filling up almost the entire screen...
...moment, we are losing more than we are winning." Peter Cordingley, World Health Organization spokesman, on the human toll of avian flu, which has killed 18 people in Asia...