Perhaps a few of these stories could focus on something other than killing things as a main gameplay device.

FORBES: When Time Slips Away: A Request for Shorter Games

Amazon found a better way to sell things, killing off bookstores and putting a world of hurt on many retailers.

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But, he explained, "we need to balance that against the objective" -- which is to get investors to buy the things that are killing banks' balance sheets--and freezing up business loans and the economy.

CNN: Yellin: Geithner faces a tough room

Raising taxes is about killing jobs and hurting small businesses and making things worse.

NPR: With Economy As Focus, Candidates Hit Trail

Several things could still prevent the drug from making the leap from killing pain to treating cancer.

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And Fiyaz Mughal, who operates a hotline for Muslims under attack, said he received 162 reports from people who said they had been called names, assaulted or had things thrown at them in the two days after Rigby's killing.

CNN: Suspect in UK killing out of hospital, at police station

To make things worse, a cyclone has devastated India's largest port, Kandla, killing more than 1, 000, and a poor crop has sent vegetable prices spiralling up.

ECONOMIST: India

Things got worse for the Blues midway through the half when hooker Rhys Thomas was sin-binned for killing the ball, after Dragons centre Tom Riley had chased down an Arlidge grubber.

BBC: Blues 42-13 Dragons

It took a series of high-speed accidents--including Wolfgang von Trips killing himself and 11 spectators in a 1961 crash-- before officials added a few chicanes and barriers to slow things down, albeit reluctantly.

FORBES: Just the ticket.