Tag / death
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How The Wealthy Skirt The Organ Waitlist
You start feeling severe abdominal pain and swelling. Soon you experience fatigue, nausea, and disorientation. You go to the doctor to ask if anything is wrong. The doctor runs tests and gives you a harrowing diagnosis: your liver is failing and you need a new one as soon as possible. Unfortunately, she tells you that…
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How The Trump Stole Christmas
The chilly holiday season is a special time for warm and lighthearted family gatherings, but for Agustín Gómez Pérez, Christmas Eve brought only pain and grief when his 8-year old son, Felipe Gómez Alonzo, died from influenza while in the custody of US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in El Paso, Texas. Felipe is the…
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Aching on the Periphery of Pain
You and I are alive and thus we have not died. But have you ever been in pain? ♦ I was chatting with a friend by the bleachers when the shooting began at the high school athletic field where I recently found myself during a dream. The concrete area was spacious, but it was fenced…
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Coronership: America’s strangest elected office
Almost no one questions the reasoning behind electing the President of the United States, barring the occasional person who thinks that America should be ruled by King Barack I. The president needs to be a representative of the people, and to ensure that the President’s first and foremost duty is to represent, we hold elections.…
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Drones, Death and the Aftermath
BY MAAZ AHMAD On March 17, 2011, a “Jirga”, or tribal assembly of elders, was held in Datta Khel, a town in northern Pakistan, to resolve a dispute over a chromite mine. Organized in an open space and in broad daylight, the Jirga was brought to the attention of Pakistani military commanders 10 days in…
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The Lady’s Ironclad Legacy
Thatcherism: love it or hate it, what remains incontrovertible is the Iron Lady’s clear influence on modern-day politics. In 1979, just twenty years after her first election to the British Parliament, Margaret Thatcher made history, becoming the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and one who propelled her Conservative Party to a forty-four-seat…
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544 Haitians Dead in Cholera Epidemic
Although there were reports that the recent cholera epidemic was reaching the end of its two week, killer sweep across the poverty-stricken island nation, deaths continue to mount in Haiti. 8,000 cholera patients are in hospitals, with that number expected to grow. The majority of the cases have been in rural areas where there is…
