Experts say that Mr Camilleri's portrayal of Sicilian low life and of Mafia mores is uncannily real.
The researchers suggest that the relatively low life expectancies in the US cannot be explained by the size of the nation, racial diversity, or economics.
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What most aborigines need is improvements in low educational achievements, low life expectancy (17 years below the national average), high mortality among children and poor job prospects.
They were an instant sensation and launched Chet's fatal bout with fame and an attendant low life of drug addiction, which eventually cost the trumpeter his teeth in a dope-related street fight.
However, if you have been the victim of some extraordinarily low life behavior on the part of credit card operators, expect that the same sort of treatment would evolve out of removing state regulation of insurance companies from the equation.
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Like other black boxers, Gans was exploited by the low-life types that inhabited professional boxing.
He felt he would lose control that way, and he considered discounters low-life in general.
Ken Starr did something extraordinary: he took the President's low-life behavior and called it a high crime.
Yet there's nothing redemptive about watching a rageful hero threaten, beat, torture, dismember and kill his low-life quarries.
Estleman's intriguing, frequently malignant or low-life characters are richly drawn, truly three- dimensional.
The author cleverly lays a two-track story, one story line following the good guys, the other following the low-life evildoers.
Thom, like Jimmy, does occasional jobs for his thuggy father as an enforcer, though he's mainly a sleazy real estate hustler partnered with low-life crooks.
The London media has been competing to find the most exotic comparators for the catastrophically low local life expectancy: Gaza and North Korea are popular.
GENEVA, Switzerland (Reuters) -- Aid agencies warned Tuesday that overwhelmed Baghdad hospitals were running low of life-saving medicines and that civilian casualties were mounting in Iraq's besieged capital.
And not only because the main character, the low-life aristocrat of drug dealing and binge drinking, Johnny "Rooster" Byron is played by Mark Rylance in a performance of stomping brilliance.
The new Research In Motion (RIMM) PlayBook tablet, which will launch sometime early next year, suffers from surprisingly low battery life, Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu asserts in a research note this morning.
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It should be evident to any but the most obsessive abuse lobbyist that a penchant for certain forms of erotic material is not restricted to a small, marginal group of shabby, low-life perverts but widely prevails at all levels of society.
The Coopermans have chosen an emphatically low-key life style, but when they went to visit a grandchild in Vermont one summer weekend they flew in a private plane.
Insurance agents and companies were outed by Diane Henriques of The New York Times for charging military personnel excessively high fees for low paying and unneeded life insurance plans for soldiers, who already have access to low cost policies via the military.
Even low fractures could mean life in a wheelchair if the spinal cord is damaged.
When Van Morrison recorded Astral Weeks in 1968, he had reached a low point in his life.
Before the first month was over, BlackBerry issued a significant update promising to improve power management for better battery life, low-light camera performance and third-party app performance.
The ability to control the strength of the beam provides for graduated lethality, and the use of light vice, an explosive munition, provides for low per engagement and life cycle costs.
Bullock told People magazine that she and soon-to-be-ex-husband Jesse James (Bullock has officially filed for divorce) brought Louis home in January, just weeks before her low-key Hollywood life went into overdrive.
Cameras lowered into previous holes drilled into the mountain turned up no signs of the miners, and tests showed that oxygen levels in parts of the mine were too low to sustain human life.
Nazif Mujic re-enacted his family's real-life struggle to get vital medical treatment in the low-budget An Episode In the Life of an Iron Picker, which also picked up the runner-up Silver Bear award.
At a low point, Heidi realized life is short and decided to follow her passion.
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Low rates are also pressuring life-insurance companies, which rely in part on returns from high-quality bond investments to pay their obligations.
It adds that the lightweight nature of the system means that apps should run smoothly and offer "optimal battery life" on low-end devices.
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