• We've been moving around this camp trying to find the people whose stories we told last time but most of them are now dead.

    BBC: [an error occurred while processing this directive]

  • When a shopping mall opens, most of them fall gratefully into dead-end jobs, serving smoothies and sandwiches.

    ECONOMIST: New fiction: Dean Bakopoulos

  • Within months, Nigeria was engulfed in independent Africa's first humanitarian catastrophe: a war for the independence of Mr. Achebe's Igbo homeland that left one million people dead, most of them children who starved.

    WSJ: Chinua Achebe, Famed Nigerian Writer, Dies

  • First, the editors changed the makeup of their advisory panel. (The original hundred advisers were not dead white men, but most of them were white men, and the average age was sixty-eight.) Some definitions were made more relativist.

    NEWYORKER: The English Wars

  • Sheik Jamal al-Sudani leads a group of volunteers with one of the most solemn tasks in Iraq: Collecting and burying the hundreds of unclaimed dead every month and giving them a proper burial.

    CNN: The story

  • BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Sheik Jamal al-Sudani leads a group of volunteers with one of the most solemn tasks in Iraq: Collecting and burying the hundreds of unclaimed dead every month and giving them a proper burial.

    CNN: Volunteers collect Baghdad's nameless dead

  • Most of the original master chefs are now dead or retired, and replacing them is no simple task.

    ECONOMIST: Chinese food

  • Casey had studied the Dead Sea Scrolls extensively, and drew upon them to make the case that most of Mark was written originally in Aramaic.

    FORBES: Could Computer Analysis Help Date the Gospels?

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