Word: die
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...stranger than we like to admit--tossing restlessly in dreams that are at once brutal and sad, yet, like Zellweger's heroine, full of an eagerly chirping life. What's best about this movie is that it plays our abnormalcy as normalcy. It lets its people live (and occasionally die) with their lunacies gloriously intact, uninstructed by superior attitudes or indulgent patronization...
...expectancy figures. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, in 1991-96, life expectancy was estimated to be 56.9 years for Indigenous males and 61.7 years for Indigenous females, compared with all-Australian estimates of 75.2 years for males and 81.1 years for females. Half of all Indigenous males die before the age of 50. In the 35-to-54 age range the death rates were six to eight times higher for Indigenous males and females than for their non-Indigenous counterparts...
...statistics continue: Babies born to Indigenous mothers are twice as likely to be of low birth weight and more than twice as likely to die at birth. Although they account for just more than 2 percent of the population, 40 percent of the children in "corrective institutions for children" are Indigenous. The imprisonment rate for Indigenous adults was over 14 times that for non-Indigenous adults. Alcoholism, petrol-sniffing and violence are endemic in the many Aboriginal communities...
...been refining a policy that calls on the states of the world to step in wherever and whenever human lives are being consumed in conflagrations of hate, disease or poverty. He has not always succeeded. On his watch, in places like Rwanda and Bosnia, he has seen thousands die as they awaited help. He is haunted by their faces--and determined to perfect his organization so those mistakes never occur again...
...surprising that Putin does not think he mishandled the Kursk sinking. He has behaved in much the same way several times in the past six months, without anything like the repercussions he faced last week. The submarine casualty figure is roughly the number of soldiers who die every month in Chechnya, often under horrific circumstances. The Russian defense establishment follows the same information policy in that war--postpone the news as long as possible, then admit the details as gradually as the situation allows...