A time of mourning incomprehensible death
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It&#39;s in the nature of athletes to imagine themselves immortal, if not impervious to harm, as though they live by a different set of rules from ordinary people.
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Missing in action, presumed dead. And eventually he faded from living memory. His generation passed away, with everyone who loved him, everyone who mourned him. Time rendered him faceless. He was just a name, one of hundreds chiseled in limestone in a cemetery chapel 4,000 miles from home.
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RIO DE JANEIRO -- As mourners laid her bullet-riddled body to rest yesterday, environmentalists and colleagues of slain missionary Dorothy Stang seesawed between fragile optimism and angry skepticism over a question they had hoped never to consider.
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Sri Lankans trying to come to terms with piles of corpses left by a tsunami may never know the actual death toll because of the disaster's unprecedented scale, different methods of counting and the politics of an ethnic war.
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Arts & entertainment: America is in mourning for the show that has seeped its way into the nation's consciousness.
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The death of Yasser Arafat is being mourned across a region which has historically supported his struggle.
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&#34;This is a terrible tragedy and an unbearable loss.&#34;
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For all the questions raised by last weekâs death of Yasser Arafat, one thing is certain: The debate over his legacy is likely to be as polarizing as the conflict that consumed his life.
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There are moments in history when the potential for seismic shifts is so great that it&#39;s palpable. Yasser Arafat&#39;s death has created one of them.
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International teams of forensic scientists have begun the grim task of identifying victims of the Indian Ocean tsunamis. The gruesome job of identifying victims has been made all the more daunting by the sheer number of bodies piling up in morgues.
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RALEIGH, N.C. - A medical examiner studying a body in a morgue was startled when the man took a shallow breath.  Emergency medical technicians had declared 29-year-old Larry D. Green dead almost two hours earlier, after he was hit by a car.  Medical examiner J.B.
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Sri Lankans trying to come to terms  with piles of corpses left by a tsunami may never know the  actual death toll because of the disaster's unprecedented  scale, different methods of counting and the politics of an  ethnic war.
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Hearing shocking news, such as a family bereavement, really can break your heart, researchers suggest
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It is uncertain just how history ultimately will judge Yasser Arafat, the erratic but charismatic Palestinian leader who died this week in Paris at age 75.
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Alonzo Mourning knows he is not ready to play meaningful minutes in a game yet. He doesn&#39;t have his wind yet and still isn&#39;t sure whether his new kidney is ready for the physical pounding NBA big men go through.
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Â· Death not natural causes, pathologist tells inquest   Â· Nobody charged despite police murder inquiry
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In the context of the clinical demolition of Fallujah where an apparently unarmed and wounded Iraqi was shot by a US Marine, there are deaths that pierce the soul in a way that even that death in a war zone cannot.