To compare, SIDS takes the lives of 2,500 babies each year in the United States.
Sidr, the year before, took the lives of 4,000 in Bangladesh.
Homicide annually claimed the lives of 2,000 New Yorkers, compared with about 500 today.
As of 14 July, Ebola had claimed the lives of 3,947 people in Sierra Leone.
A tidal wave of violence was unleashed, claiming the lives of 1,000 police officers.
For example, we are studying one day in the lives of 1,000 working women in Texas.
"I'm responsible for the lives of 8,000 men," Mireau says.
Even with such precautions, accidents and disease claimed the lives of 5,609 workers during the American effort.
Across the region, landslides claimed the lives of 1,526 people and rendered parts of the landscape unrecognisable from the air.
It included "Portraits of Grief," the biographical sketches of the lives of 1,800 of nearly 3,000 people killed in the attacks.
Easton Ellis wrote the book in 1991, a disturbing satire about the Wall Street boom and the lives of 1980s yuppies.
