Civilian mortality will be catastrophic.
This year the death tolls from HIV/Aids, malaria, tuberculosis and maternal mortality will probably rise.
Instead the gap in the rate of infant mortality will rise to 25% by 2011.
Our next medical innovation — the acceptance of our mortality — will not come as a technical solution to a scientific problem.
In the long run, the biggest reductions in cancer mortality will actually come from prevention, not treatment.
Rather, it said, the government should assume that mortality will continue to decline as it did from 1950 to 2000.
Some (such as reducing maternal and child mortality) will be missed by miles.
Experimental Efforts Ultimately, even many deer lovers say, more hard-nosed intervention, either aimed at stopping reproduction or increasing mortality, will be needed.
Whether the span is 70 years or 170 years, man's consciousness of mortality will keep life sad and thrilling -- keep it, that is, human.
Iris says Carl's illness is a stark reminder that mortality will face them one day, but for now she can't think about it.
Our gifts are easy to mimic; our sins and frailties, however — the glitch-ridden software of mortality — will be a tougher call.
