The probability that your vote will swing the election is almost zero lower than the probability that you will die in a car accident on your way to the polling place.

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An unusually hot summer in 2010 also caused some grasses to die off in the lower bay.

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These days, in the Lower Ninth Ward, it's the neighborhood that's been left to die.

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What this means for you: One thing that seemed to die with the Romney campaign is the prospect for lower income tax rates.

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The question is, are the costs of treating the illnesses and deaths brought on by those three indulgences higher or lower than the costs of treating those who live healthily but still inevitably die?

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But die neue Mitte has had a much lower profile in Germany than the third way has had in Britain.

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Overall, coffee drinkers were less likely than their peers to die during the study, and the more coffee they drank, the lower their mortality risk tended to be.

CNN: Coffee drinking linked to longer life

Talk that Japan's prime minister may call a snap election for parliament's lower house at the same time as the upper-house poll in July will not die away.

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If you do die, you can then choose to help or hinder the other players by using the touch screen to lower enemy defenses or boost ally power.

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