Residents in northern Kenya rely on animals for survival, but the lack of rain has left dead animals strewn all over the landscape.

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But considering that most people left Chrysler for dead in mid-2009, when it emerged from bankruptcy, the mere survival of the company to this point is a minor miracle.

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The day I realized that this was what was missing, I knew that the subject of the film would be death itself, death rather than survival, a radical contradiction since in a sense it attested to the impossibility of the project I was embarking on: the dead could not speak for the dead.

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