Data from the CDC indicate that children growing up in the United States today will suffer more chronic disease and premature death over their lifetimes from eating badly and lack of physical activity than from exposure to alcohol, tobacco and drugs combined.

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Steven Brown, 35, was found badly beaten and stabbed to death in a field near Elphinstone on 21 February 1999.

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"If an acute attack is badly managed, it would increase the risk of death, " Dr Rees says.

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Mr Dow is unable to save Quaker, largely because the case was badly mishandled by his initial lawyer, a common predicament for death-row inmates.

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But the death last week of Mr Nyerere casts doubt on the prospects for peace, which had already been badly undermined by violence.

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