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Faust's specializes in the American Civil War. She is the author of Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War. She is currently working on a book about the war's death toll...
Focusing on more pressing issues than counting bodies, Mozambique has not updated the official death toll for more than a week, when it was still at only 150, but estimates cite several thousand deaths. And another cyclone looming off the coast of Mozambique as well as outbreaks of disease will most likely cost even more lives...
...play a physical style that starts to take its toll during the game," Shafer said. "Some teams prefer smaller, speed guys, but I like big guys who are tough to face in a two- or three-game series...
...needs to die from," says Carolyn Aldige, president of the Cancer Research Foundation of America. Provided it's caught in its earliest, most treatable stages, colorectal cancer is curable more than 90% of the time. If more people underwent routine screening to find small tumors, experts estimate, the death toll would drop 50% to 75%, saving around 30,000 to 40,000 lives a year...
SLOW START The risk factors that foretell academic trouble for many students begin to take their toll as early as kindergarten, reports a Department of Education study. Children from low-income households headed by parents with little education had poorer number and letter skills, more problem behaviors and more illness. The study suggests intervention in preschool, along with Head Start programs and quality child care...