He notes a World Health Organization estimate that more than one and a half million people a year die from breathing smoke from solid fuels.

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Half the people with this condition die within ten to fourteen days.

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A study in 2005 found that around half of the Cambodian women who die in childbirth succumb to massive blood loss.

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Yet of the 470, 000 women who contract the disease worldwide each year (15, 000 in the U.S.), half die within five years.

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It uses intense water pressure to shape a car's steel body panels on half a stamping die.

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"I know that it's possible I will die and leave Laurene with a half-built boat, " he said.

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