She seems to believe the answer is yes, pointing to the half-million women who die from breast cancer worldwide each year.
One-half of those who die from chronic diseases are in their productive years and so the social costs and economic consequences in terms of lost productivity are considerable.
Half of all long-term smokers will die from tobacco-related illness, which causes 100, 000 deaths a year.
Nearly half a million Americans die from smoking--related illnesses each year, the biggest reversible mortality statistic in the Western world, yet 46 million adults and 3.2 million teenagers in the U.S. continue to puff away.
"I know that it's possible I will die and leave Laurene with a half-built boat, " he said.
Almost half of patients with the multi-drug resistant form of the disease die.
If the trend is mirrored in China, half of an estimated 200 million men who smoke could die from tobacco-related diseases in the next three decades.
Successful entrepreneurship rarely happens within the confines of a year, let alone a single semester, and our half-hearted attempts at starting businesses every semester (only to let them die at winter and summer breaks) reinforced a misleading expectation: that success can be validated quickly.
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It sheds the newer Cortex-A15 architecture of the Tegra 4 for a spruced-up 2.3GHz Cortex-A9 with the i500 LTE modem built directly into the chip die -- a move that cuts the surface area in half and simplifies the hardware, even as it supposedly outruns equivalent competition.
It also shows a quarter of those who die in fires have alcohol in their systems and over half of alcohol-related fires happen because someone has fallen asleep.
But fewer than half manage this says the NHS, which warns 25, 000 people die each year from hospital-acquired DVT.
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Estimates vary, but nearly half-million people are born per day, approximately 150 per minute, of which 50 to 65% will die before reaching their reproductive years.
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