It spoils quickly and, if not tended well and with passion, will maim or kill its partners.

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The campaign to ban land mines, which are estimated to kill or maim 26, 000 people a year, has been gathering steam for five years.

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Being "One Unknown" also told me that on that morning Jermaine Lindsay didn't set out to kill or maim me, Gill Hicks.

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"People cannot be allowed to murder and maim and expect the rest of us to turn a blind eye, " Mr Durkan said.

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Its razor-sharp leaves can maim, and workmen (called jimadores) who cut away the leaves to get at the heart must do a careful dance.

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If a back surgery increases rather than alleviates pain, do the cost-cutters out there really think that surgeons are going to deliberately maim patients?

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Mary Konye, 21, has been charged with throwing or casting a corrosive fluid with intent to burn, maim, disfigure, disable or do grievous bodily harm.

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These not only kill and maim hundreds of people every year, but deter cyclists and pedestrians, especially children, from exercising their right to the road.

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Last month in Oslo, more than 90 countries drafted a treaty that would totally ban anti-personnel mines, which kill or maim 26, 000 people a year, about 80 percent of them civilians.

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