Tag: mortality
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March 24, 2009 12:02 PM EDT --
People who eat more red or processed meat have a higher risk of death from all causes including cancer, while a higher consumption of white meat reduces such risks, a decade-long US study released Monday . . .
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January 03, 2010 09:40 AM EST --
Recently I've started buying lottery tickets - not many - two a week. That's $104 a year. Janie and I could blow that on one evening's dinner and drinks at Kincaid's, but we don't . . .
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May 29, 2006 08:17 PM EDT --
we held
our drinks
aloft
in the vortices
and in the gasp
of every
downdraft
we looked
as though
we were
toasting
our demise.
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November 03, 2007 09:51 AM EDT --
Numbers do not lie. Here it is:
Iraqi deaths . . .
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October 23, 2009 02:15 PM EDT --
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/10/23/h1n1.vaccines/index.html
A six year old girl in Amelia County, central Virginia, has died. She tested positive for H1N1 flu, or "Swine flu" if you prefer, . . .
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February 07, 2007 09:27 PM EST --
After Frost
The soil is lovely, moist, and deep
Where sprightly earthworms plow,
the April rains upon us seep,
though we don't . . .
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November 26, 2007 05:06 PM EST --
Three weeks ago I was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer. Then the news got worse: a cat scan revealed spots on my liver, a possible metastasis.
So how does a lifelong neurotic and avowed . . .
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June 07, 2007 04:01 PM EDT --
‘Tis lonely at the end, even the greatest of men
will eventually come to a single table setting
in his great palace hall, decorated by a solitary rose.
Even the rose becomes, at its demise,
a single . . .
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September 10, 2006 07:57 AM EDT --
BIRTHDAY BOY
Late afternoon,, drinking stale coffee inhaling a freshly packed smoke
surrounded by businessmen and homeless souls seeking shelter
swish of the waitresses, clatter . . .
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February 17, 2008 08:26 AM EST --
When my step-father was first diagnosed with prostate cancer in the mid 90s, it was scary but treatable. He beat it that time. Then seven years later, he had a cancerous tumor in his kidney. It was very . . .
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September 22, 2007 09:15 AM EDT --
It was an interesting factoid that I stumbled over. A young Marine, in training at fort A.P. Hill here in Virginia, was killed yesterday when his Humvee rolled over. Four other passengers received . . .
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May 29, 2006 08:05 PM EDT --
the big idea
the beautiful weight
of linear
sadness
something to
hold on to
of winters
in warm rooms
dry
shocking the fingers
on every doorknob
a jolt for
every exit
every exit
an entrance
the truth . . .
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September 18, 2007 05:50 PM EDT --
My wife tells me I should be outraged at the way young people dress nowadays ..... but I'm not!
Here Kitty, kitty!
PLEASE NOTE! No animals were hurt during the making of this article. (It was already . . .
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October 05, 2007 03:47 PM EDT --
Ireland - A female Jehovah’s Witness described a blood transfusion administered to her at a hospital against her wishes as being “like a rape”.
Dr Chris Fitzpatrick said the woman had . . .
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March 23, 2008 07:57 AM EDT --
I know, "Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics." -I don't recall who first coined the phrase.
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/eco_bud_exp_percap-economy-budget-expenditures-per-capita . . .
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June 10, 2006 11:31 PM EDT --
Saturday
11:30 pm
I sit on the
steps
while the
well-fed, fear-bred
theater crowd
exits all around
me
they split past
like I'm
another pillar
on the facade.
all this time
I've been
waiting patiently . . .
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May 29, 2009 10:22 AM EDT --
Try this:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/05/29/annan.climate.change.human/index.html
Those durn greeniacs at the United Nations, they just won't shut up about climate change, will they? . . .
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June 12, 2006 06:03 AM EDT --
Summer caught me unexpectedly,
the winter clothes in the closet still,
while the small black flies drown in
the dog's water dish,
the lives of small summer flies
a sufficiency . . .
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December 01, 2006 04:09 PM EST --
Friday night
the lights glow in small square windows .
How many people inside
will warm their bare feet
in perfect unison and harmony
to another pair of feet ?
and how . . .
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April 25, 2007 10:08 AM EDT --
I step into the new day.
Standing,
in the valley of the mountains,
The red dawn predicts change.
Inside, a cloak of darkness hangs.
Daniel sits,
confused, . . .
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