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  • Infant mortality in the wild is high.†   (source)
  • Or else, if it was him talking, he was talking about something besides accepting his mortality and avoiding inheritance taxes.†   (source)
  • If you take 'mortality' as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it, then 'immortality' is the absence of such fear.†   (source)
  • My father had felt in that moment the first flicker of the strange sad mortality of being a father.†   (source)
  • It reminds them of their own mortality.†   (source)
  • And once hospitalized, they got fewer pain medications, and had higher mortality rates.†   (source)
  • Moord: mortality, mordant, morbid, murder.†   (source)
  • His efforts have resulted in a nation that has the highest literacy rate in Europe, some of the best educational attainment rates, and the lowest infant mortality, inflation, and unemployment rates in the Western Hemisphere.†   (source)
  • Chapter 13 — Mortality†   (source)
  • Fortunately the doctors got the mole off in time, but the question of her own mortality is one she seems to be preoccupied with of late, probably because she knows death is the one condition in life she can't outrun.†   (source)
  • "Adah chimed in: "A little ritual killing, a little infant mortality, just a few of the many healthy natural processes we don't care to think about."†   (source)
  • King Billy lifted a fat sheaf of papers and paused to read from the top page: Without story or prop But my own weak mortality, I bore The load of this eternal quietude, The unchanging gloom, and th three fixed shapes Ponderous upon my senses a whole moon.†   (source)
  • It seemed that most vampire myths centered around beautiful women as demons and children as victims; they also seemed like constructs created to explain away the high mortality rates for young children, and to give men an excuse for infidelity.†   (source)
  • Next to our mortality, which comes to great and small equally, all the differences in our lives are mere surface details.†   (source)
  • Such thoughts of mortality were not new to him (he was over seventy now), but they still had the power to annoy.†   (source)
  • Obesity is now second only to smoking as a cause of mortality in the United States.†   (source)
  • He thought that my encounter with mortality had shaken me out of my immaturity and waywardness.†   (source)
  • There was an immensity of things, an overburdening weight, a connection, a mortality.†   (source)
  • These rooms are designed as cold, austere places in which a Mason can reflect on his own mortality.†   (source)
  • He could smell her mortality, the sweet rot of corruption.†   (source)
  • Pancreatic cancer has the highest mortality rate of any cancer; half of those diagnosed with it die within six months, and 96 percent die within five years.†   (source)
  • The mortality figures for death from typhus were five thousand people every month.†   (source)
  • The race knows its own mortality and fears stagnation of its heredity.†   (source)
  • But again, the morbidity and mortality turned out to be high.†   (source)
  • As we watched him grow gray and deaf and creaky, there was no ignoring his mortality—or ours.†   (source)
  • …in those days was not new to them, and they faced it not with bravery, exactly, and not with panic either, not mostly, but instead with a resignation shot through with moments of tension, with tension ebbing and flowing, and when the tension receded there was calm, the calm that is called the calm before the storm, but is in reality the foundation of a human life, waiting there for us between the steps of our march to our mortality, when we are compelled to pause and not act but be.†   (source)
  • But on that onerous day, oppressed beyond relief, my own mortality was borne in upon me on sluggish tides of doom.†   (source)
  • It had vaccinated all the children, and had greatly reduced both local malnutrition and infant mortality.†   (source)
  • The mood of a man insuring his life is not unlike that of a man signing his will; thoughts of mortality must occur.†   (source)
  • But somewhere, twenty seconds, ten seconds ago, the last glue crumbled, the last bolt of life fell free, and the mummy-doll, the Erector-set grotesque disencumbered itself in smoke puffs and November leaflets, a broadcast of mortality along the wind.†   (source)
  • Federal and state health officials played down the possibility that any people had contracted the virus, which has a 50 to 90 percent mortality rate and can be highly contagious to those coming into direct contact with its victims.†   (source)
  • The Centers for Disease Control's explanation for the Baltimore syphilis epidemic can be found in the Mortality and Morbidity Weekly ENDNOTES Report, "Outbreak of Primary and Secondary Syphilis — Baltimore City, Maryland.†   (source)
  • I opened my book, staring down at the lines of dialogue: Had I but died an hour before this chance/I had liv'd a blessed time; for, from this instant,/ there's nothing serious in mortality:/all is but toys.†   (source)
  • When you become an octogenarian, you find yourself dealing with your memories and your mortality.†   (source)
  • Perhaps the most heartening gain had been in infant mortality.†   (source)
  • Some people on the outside look for what is amiss in every interaction, every relationship, and every meal; they are always trying to hang their mortality on improvement.†   (source)
  • A sad tone came into his voice from time to time, as if it pained him to have to remember that mortality could prevent him from doing her such a favor.†   (source)
  • Balti hang a tomar around the neck of every newborn to ward off the evil spirits they blame for their communities' painfully high rates of infant mortality.†   (source)
  • He was seventy, and had mortality on his mind.†   (source)
  • But she chose mortality, and to die from the world, so that she might follow him; and it is sung that they met again beyond the Sundering Seas, and after a brief time walking alive once more in the green woods, together they passed, long ago, beyond the confines of this world.†   (source)
  • Seeing Obasan now, older than the grandmother I knew as a child, older than any person I know today, I feel that each breath she takes is weighted with her mortality.†   (source)
  • Each day he faced was another dangerous mission against mortality.†   (source)
  • Now there is no question of your mortality.†   (source)
  • Later, the retrospectoscope, that handy tool of the wags and pundits, the conveners of the farce we call M&M—morbidity and mortality conference—will pronounce your decision right or wrong.†   (source)
  • Padre Esteban had told them that baseball could be eternal, but right now the boys prayed for its mortality.†   (source)
  • Of our childhood and adolescence-You heard the sister's statistics on our infant mortality rate.†   (source)
  • Her mind was much on mortality.†   (source)
  • At each site, the mourners sat hunched, stifled in their black dresses and black suits, oppressed by heat as well as by grief and by a sense of their own mortality.†   (source)
  • The exile, captivity, death they shrink from--the blunt facts of their mortality, their abandonment--that's what you make them recognize, embrace!†   (source)
  • Am I to mourn my mortality?†   (source)
  • Aware of his mortality, he turned over again, entangled in the bedclothes.†   (source)
  • He is lucky to be alive, having already cheated death three times in his short life, and the unusual paperweight is a reminder of the first time he came face-to-face with his own mortality.†   (source)
  • Do you hear them raising their voices about the chain gangs, the slave camps, the fourteen-hour workday and the mortality from scurvy in the People's States of Europe?†   (source)
  • And then Liv, too, must be misremembering the scene, for she's been equally grateful and then nervous, no doubt abraded by this rough brush with mortality.†   (source)
  • Mortality is like the cold.†   (source)
  • Often the strongest among us are loath to accept mortality.†   (source)
  • The CDC had one server doing nothing but crunching mortality reports on Johannsen's Syndrome, and that already passed sixty thousand dead.†   (source)
  • Already he anticipated the textures of things familiar: decency, cleanliness, high literacy and low mortality, the pursuit of learning in heated schools, science, art, industry bearing fruit through smokestacks.†   (source)
  • We must be born with an intuition of mortality.†   (source)
  • It was true that their mortality rate had been high, but some had survived.†   (source)
  • Thinking then that those lines, those reverberant lines with their miniature, sorrowing music of mortality and time, would be as familiar to an American librarian as anything, as household objects are, or a patriotic anthem, or one's own flesh, Sophie felt her lips part to say, Because I could not stop for Death ….†   (source)
  • Right along with the energetic practice of optimism, and deeper than this, was an abiding awareness of mortality itself—most of all the mortality of a parent.†   (source)
  • The incidence of infant mortality is one of the highest in the world.†   (source)
  • calculated by using the applicable mortality table
  • It seemed so sad, so frivolous, that mere mortality, not judgment, kept him from it.†   (source)
  • Perhaps it was only the awareness of mortality.†   (source)
  • Mortality among infants and juveniles was "horrific."†   (source)
  • In theory, I was anxious, even eager to trade mortality for immortality.†   (source)
  • His mortality was always with me, constant as a second beating heart.†   (source)
  • I wondered if she had been punished with mortality for leaving her enchanted island.†   (source)
  • Mortality had remained a conveniently hypothetical concept, an idea to ponder in the abstract.†   (source)
  • I've felt the cold hand of my mortality.†   (source)
  • Hoodlums punch my face
    I would smite them if I could
    Mortality blows
    MY NAME IS APOLLO.†   (source)
  • But all the rest would come from his father, for mortality always bred truer than godhead.†   (source)
  • And when you're dealing with something so many years back, you have to face the mortality rate.†   (source)
  • Now the final ingredient: the heartbeat of the chained god—chaos, violence, and fear of mortality.†   (source)
  • She smelled sweet—blood, mortality, gardenias.†   (source)
  • Okay, we have about twenty minutes before morbidity and mortality conference.†   (source)
  • The most common measure is the maternal mortality ratio (MMR).†   (source)
  • And overnight, the infant mortality rate of a community of two thousand people was cut in half.†   (source)
  • In Boston Harbor every ship displayed "the melancholy signal of mortality."†   (source)
  • You need what politicians have, which is the absence of a sense of mortality.†   (source)
  • Red was the instrument with which they portrayed mortality; green, nature; gold, God.†   (source)
  • What about the day I …. the day of your morbidity and mortality conference?†   (source)
  • Child mortality declined by 8-15 percent with the enactment of suffrage laws….†   (source)
  • Nicolo said, in protest of age and mortality.†   (source)
  • Maternal morbidity (injuries in childbirth) occurs even more often than maternal mortality.†   (source)
  • Maternal mortality is an injustice that is tolerated only because its victims are poor, rural women.†   (source)
  • "The technical solutions to reduce maternal mortality are not enough," Allan wrote in one essay.†   (source)
  • The group's maternal mortality ratio was 872 per 100,000 live births.†   (source)
  • In almost every conflict, mortality is disproportionately male.†   (source)
  • Sri Lanka shows what it takes to reduce maternal mortality.†   (source)
  • It was as if he had nothing more to do with the fears of his common mortality.†   (source)
  • But it was not the ordinary humble dust of mortality.†   (source)
  • Zeus had cursed me with mortality.†   (source)
  • Hard currency from trekkers and climbers, as well as grants from international relief organizations supported by trekkers and climbers, have funded schools and medical clinics, reduced infant mortality, built footbridges, and brought hydroelectric power to Nainche and other villages.†   (source)
  • How I couldn't be anywhere near people after I'd gone through the painful three-day conversion that would set me free from mortality, so that I could spend eternity with Edward?†   (source)
  • Beginning that day, I read articles and papers that detailed the problems causing the high complication rate and mortality.†   (source)
  • The Public Health Service feels that something is now affecting infant mortality, and it is not being reported by the workers in the coastal villages.†   (source)
  • Our entry into adulthood, the myth suggests, depends on our understanding of our sexual natures and of our mortality.†   (source)
  • In the ghetto, there was no way of burying those who died of typhus fast enough to keep up with the mortality rate.†   (source)
  • There, between graphs of "Disease Specific Infant Mortality" and a description of "the homozygous state of Garrodian inborn errors," was the photograph of Henrietta with her hands on her hips.†   (source)
  • The concept of "life after death," she came to accept, was a human construct …. a fairy tale designed to soften the horrifying truth that was our mortality.†   (source)
  • Even with recent improvements, infant mortality rates continue to be an embarrassment for a nation that spends more on health care than any other country in the world.†   (source)
  • However, I have this graph from the Public Health Service in San Jos6 of infant mortality in the towns of the west coast earlier this year.†   (source)
  • The criminalization of infant mortality and the persecution of poor women whose children die have taken on new dimensions in twenty-first-century America, as prisons across the country began to bear witness.†   (source)
  • With Eve, too, the knowledge gained is of our mortality, and while that's not quite the point of the Persephone story, it's sort of unavoidable when she marries the CEO of the land of the dead.†   (source)
  • He wanted to learn everything about morbidity and mortality in the most disease-ridden country in the hemisphere.†   (source)
  • It's the look of terrible awareness, she thought, of someone forced to the knowledge of his own mortality.†   (source)
  • Langdon knew a heart surgeon in Boston who had converted a closet in his office into a Masonic Chamber of Reflection so he could ponder mortality before going into surgery.†   (source)
  • However, the side effects and mortality associated with the surgery were so great that hemispherectomy quickly fell out of favor as a viable surgical option.†   (source)
  • It was titillating to brush up against the enigma of mortality, to steal a glimpse across its forbidden frontier.†   (source)
  • He imagined his project for women—gynecological services, health education, and family planning—to reduce local maternal mortality.†   (source)
  • I cursed my mortality!†   (source)
  • First, infant mortality is low in the months of January and February, then spikes in March, then it's low again in April.†   (source)
  • Now, thanks to the educational seminars and emergency care provided by the clinic's volunteer staff, that mortality rate has been cut to less than one death per 30,000 trekkers.†   (source)
  • You hear that the mortality rate among new prisoners is higher than sixty per cent. You hear that the Emperor practices every form of oppression there.†   (source)
  • Frost uses the violence here, then, to emphasize our status as orphans: parentless, frightened, and alone as we face our mortality in a cold and silent universe.†   (source)
  • In Boston's Mission Hill neighborhood, right next to the Brigham, for instance, infant mortality is higher than in Cuba.†   (source)
  • Moreover, her own acceptance of the disease, of the inevitability of her mortality and suffering, mirrors her self-sacrificing nature: perhaps it is best for everyone else, parley especially, if she dies.†   (source)
  • Its tendency to lie dormant for so long, then make an appearance, its ability because of that dormant period to turn every victim into an unknowing carrier, its virtual one hundred percent mortality rates over the first decade or so of its history, all these things offer strong symbolic possibilities.†   (source)
  • He learned, too, about the central importance of "maternal mortality"—how the deaths of mothers, common events in those squatter settlements, led to skeins of catastrophes in families, to hunger and prostitution, to disease and other deaths.†   (source)
  • He enlisted five Haitians, all about his age, all of whom had gone at least as far in school as the first year of junior high, and they went from hut to hut through Cange and two neighboring villages, tallying up the numbers of families, recent births and deaths, and the apparent causes of morbidity and mortality.†   (source)
  • He had left Columbia believing that misery had been not the sole cause of the mayhem, but a primary cause, a precondition too often neglected by scholars: little or no education for most and, for those who did get it, lessons in brutality; toil and deprivation, hunger and disease and untimely death, including rampant infant mortality, which justified all-but-perpetual pregnancy for women until menopause.†   (source)
  • But it was mortality that made them what they were, the flame that blazed brighter for its flickering.†   (source)
  • They mostly seemed like excuses dreamed up to explain things like infant mortality rates—and infidelity.†   (source)
  • They've got mortality on their minds.†   (source)
  • What was so great about mortality?†   (source)
  • The rest of them might fall by the wayside, their mortality taking gentle or cruel forms, but Gus would just go on talking.†   (source)
  • For how can one slight, shrinking-in-the-bones fellow be such a lingering pall of sickness and mortality, casting darkly upon his associates and friends and recently discovered loved ones, who (almost) to the last profess their happiness for having known him, and for knowing him still?†   (source)
  • My mortality.†   (source)
  • Or I walk through the house and look at the things we own and feel the odd mortality that clings to every object.†   (source)
  • Imagine a virus with the infectiousness of influenza and the mortality rate of the black plague in the Middle Ages—that's what we're talking about."†   (source)
  • When you face your own mortality, you contemplate how much of life you have lived versus how much you have left.†   (source)
  • And I suppose it's very advanced of you to have accepted my mortality so fatalistically—everything dies, blah, blah—but how do you think that makes me feel?†   (source)
  • We're thinking of our mortality.†   (source)
  • You can look at the black-white differential in out-of-wedlock births or infant mortality or life expectancy.†   (source)
  • …dead one was really unknown, even though his belongings still lay in a tumble on the cot in Yossarian's tent almost exactly as he had left them three months earlier the day he never arrived — all contaminated with death less than two hours later, in the same way that all was contaminated with death in the very next week during the Great Big Siege of Bologna when the moldy odor of mortality hung wet in the air with the sulphurous fog and every man scheduled to fly was already tainted.†   (source)
  • For it is the vulnerability of people that has long haunted me: the mortality and fragility, of the like I witnessed performing my duties in the war, which never ceased to alarm, but also the surprisingly subject condition of even the most stolid of men's wills during wartime, the inhuman capacities to which they are helplessly given if they have but ears to hear and eyes to see.†   (source)
  • If you really want to change a culture, to empower women, improve basic hygiene and health care, and fight high rates of infant mortality, the answer is to educate girls.†   (source)
  • After decades of decline, black infant mortality began to soar in the 1980s, as did the rate of low-birthweight babies and parent abandonment.†   (source)
  • When we arrived at the auditorium where morbidity and mortality conference was to be held, Matthew excused himself.†   (source)
  • But that changed when the federal government ordered the hospitals to be desegregated: within just seven years, the black infant mortality rate had been cut in half.†   (source)
  • The one weight that aligned all the elements, and reconciled every contradiction and variation, was the burden of mortality.†   (source)
  • How strange to spot a son you've never seen or thought of till the day he appears at morbidity and mortality conference and gives new meaning to that activity.†   (source)
  • Alessandros mother and father were dressed as he had seen them in nineteenth-century photographs in which, even in the stiff portrayal of their youth, they had seemed as unconcerned with mortality as if the year 1900 were to have been a cap against which the geyser of time would rise only to fall back in decorative plumes.†   (source)
  • He had always found in singing a momentary escape from the burdens of mortality, and now he was not surprised, as he prepared to rise or fall, perhaps to be gathered in upon streams of sparkling velocity, to hear intersecting voices so lilting, resonant, and beautiful that upon them all the difficult past was effortlessly lifted like a boat in a lock.†   (source)
  • There's a strong correlation between countries where women are marginalized and countries with high maternal mortality.†   (source)
  • Poverty is obviously also a factor, but high rates of maternal mortality are not inevitable in poor countries.†   (source)
  • Norway and Britain are rare exceptions, having announced a major foreign aid program in 2007 to target maternal mortality.†   (source)
  • Over the last half century, Sri Lanka has brought its maternal mortality ratio down from 550 maternal deaths for every 100,000 live births to just 58.†   (source)
  • Then, in 2000, the UN formally adopted the Millennium Development Goal of reducing maternal mortality by 75 percent by 2015.†   (source)
  • Child mortality has plunged, longevity has increased, but childbirth remains almost as deadly as ever, with one maternal death every minute.†   (source)
  • The proportion of women delivering in health centers rose from 15 percent to 60 percent, and mortality plunged.†   (source)
  • It was difficult back then to envision the Council on Foreign Relations fretting about maternal mortality or female genital mutilation.†   (source)
  • Indeed, women leaders haven't even been particularly attentive to issues like maternal mortality, girls' education, or sex trafficking.†   (source)
  • --ASHA-ROSE MIGIRO, UN DEPUTY SECRETARY GENERAL, 2007 The first step to saving mothers' lives is to understand the reasons for maternal mortality.†   (source)
  • 6 billion project to eradicate obstetric fistula, while laying the groundwork for a major international assault on maternal mortality.†   (source)
  • Maternal Mortality--One Woman a Minute Preparation for death is that most Reasonable and Seasonable thing, to which you must now apply yourself.†   (source)
  • One way to do that is to reduce child mortality, so that parents can be sure that if they have fewer children, they will survive.†   (source)
  • Those countries that have paid attention to the problem have made a real difference in maternal mortality.†   (source)
  • It declared: It is difficult to understand why maternal mortality receives so little serious attention from health professionals, policy makers, and politicians.†   (source)
  • " The World Bank summed up the experience in a 2003 report: "Maternal mortality can be halved in developing countries every 7-10 years … regardless of income level and growth rate.†   (source)
  • Indeed, in the United States, maternal mortality remained very high throughout the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth century, even as incomes rose and access to doctors increased.†   (source)
  • WHO found that between 1990 and 2005, developed and middle-income countries reduced maternal mortality significantly, but Africa reduced it hardly at all.†   (source)
  • One study found that giving Vitamin A supplements to pregnant women in Nepal reduced maternal mortality by 40 percent, apparently because that reduced infections in malnourished women.†   (source)
  • She knew that Somaliland has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world, though precise figures do not exist because no one keeps track of deaths.†   (source)
  • The wood-paneled halls that have been used for discussions of MIRV warheads and NATO policy are now employed as well to host well-attended sessions on maternal mortality.†   (source)
  • "Looking at maternal mortality is a great way to look at a health system as a whole, because it requires you to do a great many things," says Dr. Paul Farmer, the Harvard public health specialist.†   (source)
  • The Zinder clinic, it turned out, was part of a pilot program in Niger arranged by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)* and AMDD to fight maternal mortality.†   (source)
  • The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) summed up the mounting research this way: "Women's empowerment helps raise economic productivity and reduce infant mortality.†   (source)
  • In the West, we tend to think of disease and mortality as the province of doctors, but by far the greatest strides in global health have been made by public health specialists.†   (source)
  • We saw its impact when we stopped by a clinic in Zinder, in eastern Niger, the country with the highest lifetime risk of maternal mortality in the world.†   (source)
  • Data on pelvis shapes is poor, but African women seem disproportionately likely to have anthropoid pelvises, and some experts on maternal health offer that as one reason maternal mortality rates are so high in Africa.†   (source)
  • Investments in educating girls resulted in women having more economic value and more influence in society, and that seems to be one reason that greater energy was devoted to reducing maternal mortality.†   (source)
  • As we noted earlier, maternal mortality in the United States declined significantly only once women gained the right to vote: When women had a political voice, their lives also became a higher priority.†   (source)
  • The movement's agenda should be broad and enveloping, while focusing on four appalling realities of daily life: maternal mortality, human trafficking, sexual violence, and the routine daily discrimination that causes girls to die at far higher rates than boys.†   (source)
  • But from the 1920s to the 1940s in the United States, maternal mortality rates plunged--apparently because the same society that was giving women the right to vote also found the political will to direct resources to maternal health.†   (source)
  • In 1987, partly as a result of Allan's landmark article in The Lancet, a UN conference convened in Nairobi to launch the Safe Motherhood Initiative; the goal was to "reduce maternal mortality by 50 percent by the year 2000.†   (source)
  • The improvement in America's health during this period was stunning: The mortality rate for children aged one to four plummeted 72 percent between 1900 and 1930, although there are many other reasons for this decline as well, of course.†   (source)
  • Any serious effort to reduce maternal mortality likewise requires a public health perspective--reducing unwanted pregnancies and providing prenatal care so that last-minute medical crises are less frequent.†   (source)
  • The campaign would showcase the opportunity to help some of the world's most forlorn young women, deepen obstetric skills in Africa, and generate the energy to take subsequent steps to tackle maternal mortality.†   (source)
  • We will try to lay out an agenda for the world's women focusing on three particular abuses: sex trafficking and forced prostitution; gender-based violence, including honor killings and mass rape; and maternal mortality, which still needlessly claims one woman a minute.†   (source)
  • Ribs, like spider legs, plangent as a dull harp, and then the black flakes of mortality blowing all about them in their scuffling dance; the boys pushed and heaved and fell in the leaves, in the death that had turned the dead to flakes and dryness, into a game played by boys whose stomachs gurgled with orange pop.†   (source)
  • I say this: What keeps this country sailing on an even keel is not mortality or divine favor: nothing of the kind.†   (source)
  • I extract significance from melodrama, a significance which it does not in fact contain; but occasionally, from out of this matter, there escapes a thin beam of light that, seen at the right angle, can crack the shell of mortality.†   (source)
  • Potentially infinite, beyond mortality, how long had it been absorbing race after race as it spread across the stars?†   (source)
  • Rieux awaited with much interest the mortality figures that were announced every Monday.†   (source)
  • "Don't worry," said the nurse encouragingly, "the mortality's only four per cent. It used to be thirty.†   (source)
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