Krakauer took a poor misfortunate prone to paranoia, someone who left a note talking about his desire to kill the "false being within," someone who managed to starve to death in a deserted bus not far off the George Parks Highway, and made the guy into a celebrity.
The war, which ate the budgets of two very poor countries prone to drought, has left many displaced people and destroyed towns.
oImportant facilities including schools, fire stations, police stations and hospitals, especially those on poor soils prone to liquefaction, landslides or amplification or in tsunami zones, should meet modern building codes and should be able to withstand strong earthquakes.
He is a poor manager, prone to rash promises; his constantly shuffling government has included some competent ministers, but they have often been dumped after a few months in favour of political cronies.
The interobserver reliability was unacceptably poor with prone and sitting motion palpation.
Although more research is needed before we know whether lacking access to welfare makes poor families prone to homelessness, families living in extreme poverty are nearly twice as likely to report housing instability as other low-income families.
The upper Malinau is steep, rugged, and the soils are poor and prone to erosion (Basuki and Sheil 2005).
Retrospective assessment of exposure based on self-report is problematic, since the accuracy of such estimates is poor and prone to recall bias [ 7- 10].
Tiny, poor, coup-prone Guinea-Bissau has been branded Africa's first "narco-state".
The implication is that the problem is not racialized policing but the intractable, fraught nature of securing poor, crime-prone communities.
Drawing on research in 10 poor, flood-prone settlements in Cape Town, South Africa, this article explores whether providing housing addresses risk.
