B1 Casualties of War? Relatives of a marine in California who killed one police officer and injured another before being killed himself wonder if he sought to die to avoid a return to Iraq.
PAGE A20 Casualties of War? Relatives of a marine in California who killed one policeman and injured another before being killed himself say they wonder if he sought to die to avoid returning to Iraq.
The cumulative cost of Bush's wars relative to the G.D.P. was actually less than a third that of World War II.
In his 2011 book, "The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined," Stephen Pinker, the Harvard psychologist, pointed out that the number of people killed in wars, relative to the world's population, has fallen precipitously over the past few centuries; the number of democracies has increased; and the incidence of genocide has fallen.
Abushaban et al. [ 56] found an overall post-war relative risk for congenital heart defects above 2 1/2 and statistically significant differences in incidence (pre vs. post) for 13 of 17 sub-categories.
When warring relatives or protocol-wary diplomats feel that a handshake is too big a first step, this device provides "a little start toward reconciliation" – a non-contact handshake of lesser significance.
In pictures of the pair meeting again on August 7th in Brisbane, Mr Rudd's home city, they looked more like two warring relatives than colleagues out to win an election.
Fryderyk and Witold go to Hipolit's dilapidated country estate in hopes of waiting out the war in relative safety.
It turns out the book was written by Bruno Doessekker, a Swiss man who spent the war in relative comfort in Switzerland.
The Wiesenthal Centre singles out Austria for doing the least to pursue old war criminals, relative to the number probably on its soil.
But a Swiss historian debunked the award-winning memoir when he discovered that the book was actually written by Bruno Doessekker, a Swiss man who spent the war in relative comfort in Switzerland.
