The less lethal the weapon at hand, the less likely death will follow.
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One possible explanation, the researchers write, is that machines keeping the heart beating are being removed earlier, which would turn a potential brain death donation into a "less desirable" cardiac death donation.
The safest jobs of all, with less than 1 death per 100, 000 full-time workers, include secretaries, salespersons, food preparers and servers and librarians.
He was sent home from hospital with some painkillers after X-rays revealed bruised ribs, but bled to death less than 24 hours later from a ruptured spleen.
Mr. Paterno's death occurred less than three months after his final game as coach, and thus echoed the death of another longtime college football coach.
If he once was seen as the wave of the future, he seemed less so at his death.
The death of Abu Hamdiya is the second death in less than two months inside Israeli jails this year.
While Revengeance will include humor and plenty of easter eggs, Raiden is now portrayed more as a serious instrument of death and less a Fruit Ninja veteran.
Her death came less than two months after her latest release from a rehabilitation program and weeks after she was booed offstage by disappointed fans in Serbia.
That would amount to less than a single death over roughly two and a half years, a period in which more than 1.4 billion passengers would have boarded scheduled flights by U.S. airlines.
It's clear that some of the people raising the most noise are trying to make this less about the horrible death of a young man and more about claims of racial resentment that may or may not exist.
Reviewing the research for the Lancet, Professor William Woods, a US expert, said that no link between neuroblastoma death rates and less rigorous child health examinations had been proved.
The decision to seek the death penalty came less than a week after a Colorado House committee narrowly voted to shelve a bill that would have abolished capital punishment in the state.
In 2011, only 48% of the state's residents said they support the death penalty, far less than the national average of 61%.
More than 1, 000 people died in the conflict in 2006, but that was less than a quarter of the death toll in 2001.
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The camera rushes through the wilderness, but, in the end, the movie looks less like a fight to the death than like a scavenger hunt.
Chaos erupted at the hospital when former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif arrived to pay his respects to Bhutto less than three hours after her death.
We now live longer, happier, healthier lives, are vastly less likely to die a violent death or to face persecution for our religious beliefs, skin color or sexual orientation.
Amador's death in 1991 sparked more than a decade of ugly court fights between his adopted daughters and his second wife, whom he married less than five months before his death.
His death in 1991 sparked more than a decade of ugly court fights between his adopted daughters and his second wife, whom he married less than five months before his death.
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That win has become famous for the on-court celebration between mother and daughter, and Clijsters ranks the victory as the most emotional of her career -- coming less than a year after the death of her father.
The 6, 000-patient study was designed to show that AtheroGenics' drug, known by the code name AGI-1067, decreased the risk not only of heart attack, stroke and death but also of less important heart problems, including stent procedures, bypass surgery and chest pain.
Although the researchers took into account a wide range of extenuating factors, including diet and exercise regimens, smoking, alcohol consumption, body mass index, and marital status, it's possible that people who drink coffee differ from the rest of the population in as-yet unidentified ways that make them less vulnerable to disease and early death.
Many exhibits have explored the horrors of Nazi death camps, but much less is known about Nazi labor camps.
Some speculate that the tabloids' flowering is really just a relic of the Clinton years: a more upright (and less charismatic) president will be the death of them.
Firstly, a death every hour equates to less than 10, 000 a year - too many, but several thousand people a year are killed on Britain's roads alone, and many diseases kill far more people.
For more than 10 years, he says he has bought and sold apartments where a tenant died an unnatural death, paying a third less than the market price and later selling at a healthy profit.
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Perhaps it should establish a fund to pluck some of its less adept patrons from life-or-death circumstances.
For healthy patients, other doctors say, the real risk of death from traditional angiograms is far less than that.
More than 3, 400 teens died in motor vehicle crashes in 2009, but that death toll is 60% percent less than in 1975, according to the safety group.
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