For each country, researchers estimated the probability that a fifteen-year-old today will die an early death before the age of sixty.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

When he stopped teaching at Howard, he continued giving singing lessons in his Washington home until the week before his death.

VOA: special.2010.03.07

Norman Borlaug taught at Texas A&M University and worked on international projects until not long before his death on September twelfth.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

Before the disaster, it suffered from high death rates among babies and high rates of H.I.V./AIDS,hepatitis and other communicable diseases.

VOA: special.2010.02.01

In the weeks before her death she won her twenty-ninth Blues Music Award, the most for any artist ever.

VOA: special.2009.06.12

Three days before his death, he joined volunteers at his yearly event to give toys to needy children in Augusta,Georgia.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

He served as vice president for about a year and a half before the death of President Taylor.

VOA: special.2009.04.09

Before his death in nineteen eighty-three, Eubie Blake was believed to be the only musician still living who had played ragtime music.

VOA: special.2010.10.08

It really began with the death of the Bank of the United States more than a year before.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

Before his death, he was working with the Sudan Sunrise group to help bring the country together.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

In the days before her death, Aasiya Hassan had taken legal steps to divorce her husband.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

He was able to get Harrison to call such a session before the president's death.

VOA: special.2009.01.29

Before Post's death, the government of the United States had bought the "Winnie Mae."

VOA: special.2009.03.18

That was just two days before the death of Yankees owner George Steinbrenner.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

Before her death, the poet wrote about her wishes for her funeral.

VOA: special.2010.07.18

He kept on performing weekly until a few months before his death.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson went on to produce a series of successful films, including Bad Boys, Crimson Tide and Dangerous Minds. The Rock was the team's last film together before the unexpected death of Don Simpson in nineteen ninety-six.

VOA: special.2010.03.12

Only weeks before her death, Saylan's home and offices of her association across the country were searched by police.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

So,for the past year, he reviewed something no historian ever had: Bolivar's medical records dating back 10 years before his death in 1830.

VOA: standard.2010.06.09

Her death,following surgery for a heart condition, came just weeks before Danny's 2008 "American Idol" audition.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

Before his death in a Barcelona clinic two months ago, Omar Bongo's French bank accounts were frozen as part of an investigation into African leaders embezzling public funds.

VOA: standard.2009.08.28

we are human beings,'". Khalaf says that before working on this book, she never thought much about the death penalty, but she was deeply touched by reading the stories of men who often grew up in broken homes and who,as one inmate says, "became lost souls as children."

VOA: standard.2009.10.21