Selig's alternative, however, would bring the sport closer to death than to health.

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Professor Meadow's figure on the likelihood of cot deaths was disputed by other experts who argued genetic and environmental factors made the odds of a second cot death in the same family closer to 200 to one.

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It was his father's sudden death when Gergiev was just 14 that drew him closer to music and eventually led to conducting.

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