Mrs Brothers' daughter, with the help of a neighbour, began to administer CPR but she said as far as she was concerned "my Mum was dead on the path".

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And with the aid of thrusters and some dead-reckoning, the entry capsule will fly a path through the upper atmosphere.

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Too many young people have found nothing but dead ends as they seek opportunity and the path to a better future.

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He took the lessons he'd absorbed over the years to create his own path, at a time when the original trail seemed to be leading to a dead end.

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The key is to learn from the mistakes you made the first time and never head down that same dead end path again.

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Faced with this dead end twenty years ago, the late Gene Upshaw chose a different path.

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Another is The Night of the Living Dead Pixels, a graphic novel (shown above) that allows you to choose your path, with terminal pages featuring QR codes that trigger videos on your smartphone.

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They can choose a path that brings them back into the community of nations, or they can continue down a dead end.

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