One day in a Guatemala City bookstore, I bought Mario Vargas Llosa's "García Márquez: Historia de un deicidio," his staggering 650-page study of García Márquez and of "One Hundred Years of Solitude".
"When you have these numbers in front of you, it's pretty staggering," said the study's lead author, Dr. Frank B. Hu, a professor of medicine at Harvard.
"The difference in a year is staggering," said the study's lead author, Andrew Rhyne, an assistant professor of marine biology at Roger Williams University and a research scientist at the New England Aquarium.
The effect of these restrictive policies and the culture of fear they can create is staggering: A 2010 study showed that only 16.7percentt of polled professors strongly agreed with the statement that "it is safe to hold unpopular positions on campus".
In a street research study a staggering 96 per cent of people in the region could name him from a photograph.
Second, according to the study, a staggering proportion of violence against women is fatal, and guns are a key factor in those deaths.
The findings of the study have staggering implications for what increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere and a changing climate could mean for the planet in the not-so-distant future.
As reported, the key findings provided some staggering statistics as the study reported that total estimated costs of diagnosed diabetes increased 41% to $245 billion in 2012 from $174 billion in 2007 (15).
Exact accounts are difficult to accurately estimate and individual reports quote differing yet staggering figures; a UN Population Fund study in 2006 found that 50,000 rape cases had been reported across nearly half of the health centres it the country [ 8].
He went on to be recognized as what one American Jewish publication called "a staggering scholar," and he studied with Rabbi Meir Arak and other prominent rabbis in Eastern Europe.
