Still, it's difficult to know whether Silverstein, who died of a heart attack in 1999, after keeping out of the public eye for more than two decades, meant for us to read the book so conclusively.
Across these two decades, mean worldwide vegetable intake was stable (global change +1.8 g/day (−5.6 to 9.2); figure 5).
For 14-year-old Hopolang Staka, Lesotho's worst drought in more than four decades means fewer meals, a daily two-hour trek for water and an education postponed.
Intensified agricultural and industrial activity in the last two to three decades means that areas in Rajasthan such as Neemrana -- where SABMiller India has a brewery -- increasingly suffer from India's long-term struggle with shortages.
The reorganization, the first in nearly two decades, is meant to encourage collaboration across the sprawling, Balkanized and in some cases demoralized bank, which is conducting more than a thousand projects around the globe.
The Republican strategist Matthew Dowd studied the 2000 results and concluded that the proportion of swing voters in America had declined from twenty-two to seven per cent over the previous two decades, which meant that mobilizing the Party's base would be more important in 2004 than attracting independents.
It could be high: HCV is common in injecting drug users (36.6%) [ 4]; regional conflict in the last two decades has meant approximately eight million Afghan migrated to neighbouring countries, particularly Iran and Pakistan, where HIV is relatively common among injecting drug users [ 5].
The problem was, two decades of failure meant those fans also knew the alternative ending all too well.
14, 15 In contrast, our homozygous R406W patient showed symptom onset during the early thirties, more than two decades prior to mean symptom onset in heterozygous R406W.
This is five times the 13m deaths that have taken place in those countries in the previous two decades.What this means is that AIDS experts think the worst is still to come.
Schillinger, in her introduction, writes that "over the last two decades new technologies, new means of communication, and sweeping social changes have crashed down on society like an avalanche".
