Word: fatalism
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...Hollywood. Someone's making a pile of dough out of this morbid Dean business, and that's one reason they're working so hard to keep it alive. But the full irony of Dean's plan to win fame and glory was that his fatal accident wasn't a part of the scheme. Yet, that really made the legend...
...eminent medical researchers with known differences among themselves as to detailed interpretation of the facts, the five committeemen* surveyed the parade of theories whereby atherosclerosis and its fatal consequences have been successively blamed on cholesterol in one form or another, on increased fat in the diet, on animal fats and most recently on saturated fats, whether animal or vegetable (TIME, Nov. 12, 1956). They agreed that several factors-heredity, the anatomy of blood vessels, blood pressure, sex and obesity-are at least as important as dietary fat in predisposing to atherosclerosis. They were unanimous that obesity is a heavy villain...
...mirage of 100 years of history. For Australia's story, as it is told in the school books to this day, is not one of national revolution or wars of liberation, but a simple narrative of what seekers and explorers found inside the place, in that fatal zero known to Australians as the "Dead Heart" of the continent...
...factories and firms they find themselves regarded, and resented, as Colonel Blimps. Private companies, however, are delighted to pick up ex-field marshals at fancy prices for their boards of directors. Too many honors without enough rank can also be bad. "A knighthood," observed the London Economist, "is fatal; it often confines a man to running a charity...
Stamp told his audience that "Indians actually have less food to eat today than they did twenty and thirty years ago because advances in medical science have been able to prolong longevity and reduce the infant mortality rate." In a country already highly overpopulated ths is fatal, he said...