Roger Ebert, the beloved film critic who died from cancer earlier this month, raced death to the finish line, too.
Relaying for most of the 850 miles they journeyed, they barely crossed the 82d parallel and had to race death back to their ship.
Later, after he left the news conference, Waltrip found out that Earnhardt had died, the fourth Nascar racing death in less than a year.
Michael Phelps gets silver, for once, after his pre-race "death stare" at a fellow swimmer caught the internet's attention.
John Gosden famously did an excellent bit of PR work on racing's behalf after the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes of 2011, when he set the mid-race death of Rewilding into context for shocked TV viewers.
When Dale Earnhardt's time came Sunday in Daytona, the public shock was far less related to another auto racing death than it was about the name it was familiar with.
This selection from "Blind Man With a Pistol," published in 1969, captures Himes' point of view on race, death and humor.
Hip-hop has traveled from the godfathers' cries for gender and race equality or rags-to-riches tales to a distortion of the American Dream wherein success is a Pimped ride racing death to reach a middle school house party.
For the all races, both genders group, percent of whites including Hispanics, blacks including Hispanics, and Hispanic persons (National Cancer Institute, 2014b) were included to test their association with the death rates in this group (that is, to test whether a higher concentration of a race influenced the all-races death rates).
All races, both genders cancer death rates as the response variable, while predictors also consisted of temperature, smoking, cost, and land elevation, as well as percent of black persons (including Hispanics), percent of white persons, and percent of Hispanic persons (to test their association with all-races death rates).
