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	UNICEF - Real lives - In the name of the father: Helping children affected by blood feud
		Marash is a living victim of blood feud â“ revenge killing sanctioned in medieval practices that have re-emerged in northern Albania since the fall of the Communist regime in 1991.
		Blood feud is an anachronistic practice codified in the Kanun, a code of law that emerged in the middle ages to govern life in the isolated north of Albania.
		All of the families affected by blood feud are poor, and the project helps by providing basic supplies and some clothing.
	www.unicef.org /albania/reallives_765.html (783 words)

	Feud - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A blood feud is a feud with a cycle of retaliatory violence, with the relatives of someone who has been killed or otherwise wronged or dishonored seeking vengeance by killing or otherwise physically punishing the culprits or their relatives.
		The Montague - Capulet feud, from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
		Originally, a vendetta was a blood feud between two families where kinsmen of the victim intended to avenge his or her death by killing either those responsible for the killing or some of their relatives.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Feud (926 words)

	TCS Daily - War in Pieces: The Blood Feud
		In the blood feud, the orientation is not to the future, as in war, but to the past.
		Rather the blood feud functions as a permanent "ethical" institution -- it is the way of life for those who participate in it; it is how they keep score and how they maintain their own rights and privileges.
		The art of the blood feud, if it can be called an art, requires the participants in the feud to imitate the random and unpredictable nature of what we in the West call acts of God.
	www.tcsdaily.com /article.aspx?id=070805LH (1182 words)

	Gendercide Watch: "Honour" Killings and Blood Feuds
		The institution of the blood feud is most virulent in the malësi (mountain regions) of northern Albania, spilling over into the territory that is today the Yugoslav province of Kosovo.
		The blood feud was the result of perceived violations of this code of "honour." It "is one of the most archaic features of northern Albanian society," notes Malcolm.
		Blood feuds generally declined in the Balkans after the Second World War, as the authoritarian rulers of Albania (Enver Hoxha) and Yugoslavia (Josip Broz Tito) clamped down on practices that were seen as a legacy of the feudal past.
	www.gendercide.org /case_honour.html (3876 words)

	The Belmont Club: Two Points of View
		In the blood feud, the orientation is not to the future, as in war, but to the past.
		Rather the blood feud functions as a permanent "ethical" institution -- it is the way of life for those who participate in it; it is how they keep score and how they maintain their own rights and privileges.
		But I'm wondering if the blood feud thing is spinning out of control when the jihadists run out of sufficient soft targets who will sit still and allow themselves to be blown up, and so therefore they turn upon their own and begin killing fellow Muslims who they declare aren't sufficiently anti-everything.
	fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com /2005/07/two-points-of-view.html (11812 words)

	BBC News \| EUROPE \| Eyewitness: Albania's blood feuds
		This is one of hundreds of blood feuds which are blighting the lives of thousands of people in Albania.
		The government is relying on the peace missionaries to intervene where it cannot by holding a series of village meetings in the north where the whole community is urged to "swear to abstain" from blood feuds.
		Prek Preka, the father of the feud victim, would not talk long about the duty to kill by which he is now bound.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1964000/1964397.stm (791 words)

	Our Southern Highlanders - Chapter XV - The Blood Feud
		This is a mere scenario of a feud in the wealthiest and best-schooled county of eastern Kentucky.
		Few, if any, of the great families but had their special feud; and feuds once originated survived for ages; to forget them would have been treason to the dead, and wild purposes of revenge were handed down from generation to generation as a sacred legacy.
		Let us not forget that these highlanders are blood of our blood and bone of our bone; for they are old-time Americans to a man, proud of their nationality, and passionately loyal to the flag that they, more than any other of us, according to their strength, have fought and suffered for.
	www.newrivernotes.com /osh/osh15.htm (4735 words)

	Blood Feud in New York - Buy/Read Reviews
		Blood Feud in New York brings the fun and game play of great war games (such as Axis and Allies) to the mean streets of New York, where you and your opponents take on the role of mob bosses vying for control over the 5 Burroughs.
		The Blood Feud ignites quickly as you, the members of your crime family, and your hired guns defend turf and strike out at your opponents.
		Blood Feud in New York makes these nine different choices hard, because you are always trying to attack and defend on multiple fronts.
	www.rainydaygames.ca /Product.asp?Product=EGL041 (1465 words)

	RPGnet : Review of Blood Feud in New York
		Blood Feud in New York reminds me a little of some of those wargames.
		Finally, the board for Blood Feud in New York is large and quite attractive.
		Blood Feud in New York is essentially a simulation of a bloody gang war.
	www.rpg.net /reviews/archive/11/11012.phtml (1754 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Is it really so morally objectionable for the father of a murder victim to accept ...
		The term "blood money" - meaning the compensation a killer pays to his victim's family - is now usually meant pejoratively, but it was not always so.
		In Anglo-Saxon England, weregild (or wergeld), was payable as a means of averting a blood feud between the families of killed and killer.
		Laws governing blood money still exist in Muslim states today, where it is used to diminish the punishment of an individual killer.
	www.guardian.co.uk /g2/story/0,,1886853,00.html (1111 words)

	Blood feud
		The study, which Hollister conducted as her doctoral dissertation, found that women with the incompatibility were twice as likely as others to have children who later developed schizophrenia.
		In Caucasians, 85 percent of women are born Rh-positive, which means they have a protein on the surface of their red blood cells, explained Hollister, who received her doctorate in August.
		Whenever Rh-negative blood comes into contact with Rh-positive blood, the immune system produces antibodies to fight this protein, which the body perceives as an intruder.
	www.usc.edu /uscnews/stories/1679.html (1307 words)

	Law.com - Blood Feud
		A Jehovah's Witness who received a blood transfusion at a Florida hospital after he allegedly refused it on religious grounds is suing the hospital, accusing it of battery and falsification of medical records.
		According to medical records, 250 milliliters of blood, or about one cup, was administered to Cordero during the operation.
		The group's prohibition against blood transfusion became known to the wider public in the 1940s, when the medical technique first became widely used among civilian populations.
	www.law.com /jsp/article.jsp?id=1078196800708 (1300 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports -- Blood fuels feud over growth hormone testing in sports
		SAN FRANCISCO – Olympic athletes soon will have their blood tested for human growth hormone, but the NFL and baseball officials instead are embracing the unproven concept of urine testing in their bid to stop use of the performance-enhancing drug.
		This blood feud over how to root out cheaters has opened a deep schism at the highest levels of amateur and professional sports.
		Rabin said the blood test can detect the presence of synthetic growth hormone for about two days after it's injected, which requires the agency to conduct unannounced, random samplings.
	www.signonsandiego.com /sports/20070131-1252-hghtesting.html (824 words)

	H. H. Munro : The Blood-Feud of Toad-Water
		Fate, which had linked the two families in such unavoidable association of habitat, had ordained that the Crick household should nourish and maintain among its earthly possessions sundry head of domestic fowls, while to the Saunderses was given a disposition towards the cultivation of garden crops.
		One of the Crick hens, in obedience to the nomadic instincts of her kind, wearied of her legitimate scatching-ground, and flew over the low wall that divided the holdings of the neighbours.
		Saunders joined heartily in the singing of the final hymn, which told of peace and joy and archangels and golden glories; but her thoughts were dwelling on the pauper aunt of Exeter.
	www.classicreader.com /read.php/bookid.1633/sec. (1037 words)

	Blood Feud: the Red Sox, the Yankees, and the Struggle of Good versus Evil
		Blood Feud revels in the differences separating the Red Sox and the Yankees, including divergences in culture, geography, attitude, and personal grooming.
		From the Curse of the Bambino to the Zen of Zimmer, Blood Feud dissects the pivotal personnel trades and transactions, the tangles, and the tirades that continue to add gasoline to the fire.
		Drawing on historical research, original interviews with players from both sides, and discussions with fans of each team, Blood Feud: the Red Sox, the Yankees, and the Struggle of Good versus Evil is mixed with humor, philosophical musings, anecdotes, and innumerable enlightening factoids.
	www.redsoxconnection.com /bloodfeud.html (371 words)

	Blood Feud - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		"Blood Feud" is the last episode of the second season of The Simpsons.
		However, according to The Simpsons Archive, "Blood Feud" technically does not belong to any season, as it aired after the formal end of the second season and before the beginning of the third season.
		Burns' blood type, and Homer urges his son to donate, promising that they will be handsomely rewarded.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blood_Feud (641 words)

	Blue Ridge Country (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Before she died of a broken heart eight years later, she would become a casualty in the mountain war that left her alone, pregnant, a family traitor, bereaved of five dead siblings and betrayed by lover, parent and, at last, her own mind and body.
		When her brother Jeff McCoy tried to seek revenge, he was arrested, escaped and quickly shot at the banks of the Tug.
		In a twist of fate, Johnse Mc-Coy, convicted separately and later than the others of feud crimes, was pardoned when he saved the life of Lt. Gov.
	www.blueridgecountry.com /hatmac/hatmac.html (2704 words)

	blood feud definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
		blood feud definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
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		feud involving murder: a long-lasting feud between families or clans involving murder
	encarta.msn.com /dictionary_1861686371/blood_feud.html (88 words)

	RPGnet : Review of Blood Feud in New York
		Blood Feud in New York (Eagle Games and Rebel Forge, 2004 - Chris Toepker and Kyle Weinandy) took me by surprise.
		The reason for this is that Blood Feud was actually designed by Rebel Forge; Eagle distributed the game.
		Blood Feud is a “rich get richer” game, but players can make quick strikes to capture money from an unwary opponent if they are wise.
	www.rpg.net /reviews/archive/11/11028.phtml (2251 words)

	Wired 13.09: Blood Feud
		Freedmen, unlike their peers on the blood roll, were permitted to sell their land without clearing the transaction through the Indian Bureau.
		The range of Indian blood was from 0 to 30 percent, for an average of just 6 percent - almost identical to an East Coast African-American population.
		I ask Scott whether she expects her application to be rejected, considering that her percentage of Indian blood is smaller than the test's margin of error.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/13.09/seminoles_pr.html (4522 words)

	Blood Feud Between FDA and American Red Cross
		The FDA wants to start penalizing the Red Cross for deficiencies in its stewardship of the national blood supply system, but the matter is now in court and in headlines around the country.
		Over the weekend, the dispute between FDA and the Red Cross made national news, as a Dec. 1 letter to the agency from the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen declared, "It is time for the FDA to stop playing dangerous, cooperative, polite games" with Healy's group.
		Healy objects to "the public humiliation of the Red Cross and the fear being inspired in the patients we serve" which is "destructive for this important mission we have." She tells WebMD, "The way this has carried out over the past few days is truly sad, and sad for our vulnerable patients.
	www.webmd.com /content/article/18/1685_51103 (640 words)

	ThePolitic.com » Not “War” Against Terror: It’s a Blood Feud
		Rather the blood feud functions as a permanent “ethical” institution — it is the way of life for those who participate in it; it is how they keep score and how they maintain their own rights and privileges.
		You don’t feud to win, you feud to keep your enemy from winning — and that is why the anthropologist of the Bedouin feud, Emrys Peters, has written the disturbing words: The feud is eternal.
		I suspect he’s onto something with his categorization, though I can’t think of too many blood feuds “artists” that have adopted an apocalyptic ideology to justify themselves.
	www.thepolitic.com /archives/2005/07/10/not-war-against-terror-its-a-blood-feud (710 words)

	Blood feud - 22 May 1999 - New Scientist
		FEAR of the human equivalent of mad cow disease is prompting Canada and other countries to consider refusing blood from donors who have visited Britain since the BSE crisis began.
		No cases of new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) have ever been linked to donated blood, but mice have developed the disease after blood and plasma from infected animals were injected into their brains.
		Last month, the scientific committee that advises Canada's health ministry on blood regulation recommended that would-be blood donors should be rejected if they have stayed in Britain for more than a certain length of time since 1980.
	www.newscientist.com /article/mg16221873.000.html (273 words)

	Blood Feud
		Everything to do with the feud, for instance, will be with me, fresh as this morning's milk, until the day I lay down and die.
		I looked down to where drops of blood were hanging on the grass blades at my feet.
		We came on a place where there was more stained grass and a trail of blood leading away down the hill.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/t/thomas-blood.html (4418 words)

	Funagain Games: Blood Feud in New York (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In Blood Feud in New York, players are the boss of various crime families in New York City.
		A war game and negotiation game, Blood Feud allows players to hire different types of thugs to help them wage war on their enemies.
		Blood Feud is very thematic, and you'll find yourself talking with a "wise guy" accent; as they attempt to build penthouses and run illicit activities.
	www.funagain.com /control/product/~product_id=015095 (2474 words)

	blood feud — Infoplease.com
		feud - feud, formalized private warfare, especially between family groups.
		Blood feuds abound in trial on Bonding.(Sony and MGM battle over James Bond movies)(Brief Article)
		Blood feud: attempts to use gene technology to trace the migration patterns of early humans have pitted scientists against indigenous......
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/society/A0910972.html (219 words)

	Blood Feud in Golden Sand - Bill Bitetti
		However, when the police inform him that his mother, Vera Santoro, has been murdered in her condominium in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, his grief soon turns into rage, and he decides to take up residency in his mother’s condo until her killer’s apprehended.
		He soon discovers that his mother’s murder is inextricably linked to the ugly feud that exists between two wealthy real estate investors, Joe Valenti and Allen Silverman, for control of the Golden Sand Condominium Association.
		He lives with his Norwegian wife, Ingrid, her two daughters, and their harlequin Great Dane, Moses, in a dream house he built on five acres in a gated horse community atop a hillock in a bucolic setting in Northern Florida.
	www.llumina.com /store/bloodfeud.htm (370 words)

	Blood Feud In New York \| BoardGameGeek
		Blood Feud In New York NEW Game OUT OF PRINT
		Blood Feud in New York: A Fresh Face for Old-School Mechanics
		Blood Feud in New York Battleboard (to help beginners)
	www.boardgamegeek.com /game/14258 (292 words)

	Blood Feud
		Today doctors send blood samples from critically ill patients to a hospital laboratory and need to wait 20 minutes for results.
		But of all blood tests, the one for blood gases is the toughest, because oxygen and carbon dioxide are notoriously unstable.
		But because blood gases are chemically more complex than electrolytes, creating a carbon dioxide "gas" battery would prove more challenging than producing the water-vapor battery.
	www.inc.com /magazine/19941101/3175.html (4843 words)

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