Word: die
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...debate crime and punishment all we want, but it is worth listening to the man who presides over the country's largest maximum-security prison, who actually holds the hands of the men he is ordered to execute before they die and who tells them to "get ready to see the face of Jesus." Angola prison warden Burl Cain figures his job will probably wreck his marriage eventually. "My wife, she doesn't like that she's married a killer," he says. "There are very few things I hide from, but I hide from that." Cain tries to make...
...felt like I was going to throw up. At this point, Sugar, one of the pilots, asked me if I was scared. Managing my most sincere smile, I assured him that I wasn't. Even though I was on the verge of screaming WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE! this wasn't a total lie. I was so consumed with my vision of the truck tumbling down the side of the cliff that I didn't have time to think about the trip down...
Golub and colleagues at Boston's Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, meanwhile, are learning that tumors from a specific category--lung, prostate, colon--can be divided into previously unsuspected subcategories. Golub says of his specialty, for example, "We're trying to understand why some men die with prostate cancer rather than of prostate cancer, whereas others have aggressive disease that kills them...
...initiatives within the Convention. Alice Crabtree, a heterosexual mother of three, rises and says, "This church is a place where you can bring your most-honest-to-God-awful self or your most magnificent self," she says. "And people know you and love you. You watch people die. But you can come here because this is a safe place. For some people it's all the family...
...little boy is trapped in the middle of the ocean and watches his mother die, then he's saved by a fisherman and becomes the center of a political conflict between the U.S. and Cuba. It's a terrific story... Imagine 70 soldiers attacking a home to capture a little boy." Thus ran the probable Hollywood pitch by legendary schlock producer Menahem Golan for his Elian Gonzalez biopic, currently in production in Cuba and the odds-on favorite to beat rival projects from CBS and the Fox Family Channel onto screens...