While authorities add up the human toll from Hurricane Katrina, companies are sorting out their roles.
Since 1946, several organizations have tracked the number of armed conflicts and their human toll world-wide.
Their faces peering from newspaper pages are daily reminders of the human toll of an inhuman crime.
Finally, many who are seduced by the romance of organic farming ignore the human toll it exacts.
The drumbeat of a warming climate, worsening weather, and the resulting human toll continues, and keeps getting louder.
Timothy A. Pychyl, a psychologist who began studying Facebook use more than three years ago found a human toll.
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What is missing from this graphic is the human toll of soda production.
The human toll and economic damage in Japan was from the earthquake, not the subsequent potential problems with nuclear plants.
Worse, the human toll may include a very small increase in the incidence of cancer and lifetime morbidity rates among some surrounding populations.
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And there has been a human toll: more than half of the pearl farmers in Masaki have been forced out of business since 1988.
Mr. MORRERO: And we want America not to forget the human toll and the human emotion and the suffering that we are going through because of these steroids.
The musical world lost one of its greatest talents this weekend, and though the human toll must be considered first, the economics of Winehouse and her music are staggering.
While the human toll in London has been awful, the business effects appear to be fairly slight, in part because of terrorism-risk insurance held by the affected transport companies.
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The human toll of such energy poverty is incredible.
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The 1986 Chernobyl leak caused few deaths initially, but resulted in the forced relocation of more than 100, 000 Ukrainians from an area near the plant and the true human toll is still debated.
If Saddam uses all he has and goes out in a blaze of inglory, it could yield a terrible human toll among his own people, to whose safety he's long given little thought.
Pausing before she passes judgment on the veracity of the clip, Virginia Heffernan of The New York Times wonders why it's animal suffering that goes viral and not footage of the human toll in war.
Add these costs to the human toll of people being turfed out of their homes, and it is no surprise that America's politicians are scrambling for ways to stem the foreclosures. (All the more so because hardest-hit areas include election swing states such as Ohio and Florida.) So far, the focus is on low-cost intervention: encouraging borrowers to seek counselling and lenders to show forbearance.
In this sense, and many others, the 3.11.11 disaster will continue to be exact a heavy toll on Japan, even as its heart-rending human and material toll in the Tohoku region grow dimmer in sight and memory.
"It's very incremental and deliberate re-hiring, " said Jon Downs, senior vice president of human resources for Toll.
Obviously, as we get farther away from the initial event, we'll have greater information on the toll in human lives.
Despite the American pressure, and despite the worsening toll in human lives exacted by the suicide-bombers, there is little sign of a change of heart in either the army or the Pakistani political opposition.
Since the end of World War II the widespread use of these powerful sprays almost wiped out bed bugs, but they also took a terrible toll on human health and on species species including eagles and ospreys.
Numerous studies have shown that stress can take its toll on the human body.
Unless the international community steps up to halt the violence, the human suffering will continue and the death toll will rise.
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