The other night, Yassky met with a church group in Park Slope which had been sending him postcards about the crisis in Darfur, Sudan, and, while he felt a little ridiculous taking an official stand, in his capacity as a Brooklyn Heights councilman, on the genocide in Africa, he thought he might try to interest the group in some other moral causes, closer to home.
Longtime board member of the National Dance Institute, Himalayan Healthcare and the Kathmandu Valley Preservation Trust, causes close to her heart.
According to World Health Organization research on the environmental burden of disease, outdoor air pollution causes close to one million premature deaths worldwide each year, with particulate matter as one of the leading contributors.
Globally, inactivity causes close to 2 million deaths each year (Ezzati et al, 2002).
The disease causes close to five million deaths per year and accounted for global healthcare expenditures of 465 billion USD in 2011 alone.
That led to a flood that caused close to $2 billion in damage to downtown buildings as the water spread underground.
Maria caused close to 3,000 deaths, amid widespread criticism of the federal government's stalled response to the disaster.
Fires, caused by arson, had swarmed across the island, charring roughly a fifth of the park and causing close to $90 million worth of damage to this Unesco World Heritage site.
The first site will be built next to Cunningham Park in Joplin, where residents are recovering from a May 22 , 2011 tornado that killed 158 people, injured more than 1,000 and caused close to $3 billion in damage.
There were 17 cases of any of those diseases in the United States in 1982 and nine deaths; in contrast, gun injuries caused 33,000 deaths and were estimated to have caused close to 200,o00 injuries.
Therefore, the doses judged to be most likely to be safe and to cause close to 100% subjects being anesthetized (BIS < 50) were taken from those published data.
