Word: fatalities
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DAVID VAN BIEMA, TIME's religion writer, this week reports on the fatal shootings at a church in Fort Worth, Texas, and its similarities, from at least one perspective, to other recent tragedies, such as that at Columbine. "While trying to tell the story of this horrible event, we wanted to address the fact that Evangelical Christians seem to make up a larger proportion of victims of mass killings," Van Biema says. "Evangelicals are used to seeing other minorities described as the targets of discrimination and hate crimes. Now they are beginning to wonder, given these recent sets of murders...
...example, the 22-year-old Macedonian King Alexander charged with his cavalry into the ranks of Persian forces at the Granicus River in what is now Turkey. A Persian soldier clubbed Alexander with an ax, but before he could deal a second and fatal blow, the King's bodyguard killed...
Your report included the views of a gay man who was a proponent of barebacking (having unprotected sex with multiple partners). For him, the rush of such sex outweighs the risk of becoming HIV positive--especially because AIDS, in his eyes, is turning from a fatal disease into a chronic illness. Lucky for this guy that he is not in South Africa, where there are scant funds to treat HIV patients or pay for anti-AIDS drugs. Here his risk taking would leave him dead. Not every country is able to spend millions of dollars for AIDS drugs so that...
...Jakarta began to organize and acquire guns. Even before the vote, independence campaigners were intimidated and dozens killed. Although the militias were clearly supported by elements of the Indonesian armed forces, the international community in May agreed to entrust security during the referendum period to Indonesia. It was a fatal misjudgment, as the bloodbath showed. Why the killing? There were all kinds of theories. Perhaps the military, angered at having to give up territory it had fought so hard to pacify, wanted to get a few last licks in before pulling out. The military leadership was also clearly afraid that...
...problem I encountered was when I installed Wham-O's Frisbee Golf: an error message informed me that my machine didn't have the required horsepower--a Pentium running at 90 MHz or better. (Duh. That's because it's not a Pentium.) Luckily, the error message wasn't fatal, and I was able to get the game running on the Compaq anyway...