
	Where results make sense

Topic: The Toll of Death

	Iraq civilian death toll up -- and rising - The Boston Globe
		BAGHDAD -- The death toll among Iraqi civilians in insurgency-related violence last year was more than twice as high as that of the country's soldiers and police combined, according to government figures obtained yesterday by The Associated Press.
		And the civilian death count in the first two months of this year already stands at more than one-quarter of last year's total -- due largely to sectarian violence triggered by the Feb. 22 bombing of a Shi'ite shrine and car bombings in Shi'ite neighborhoods around Baghdad.
		Death tolls for the police and army are compiled by the ministries of Interior and Defense.
	www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2006/03/03/iraq_civilian_death_toll_up____and_rising (686 words)

	Katrina Death Toll
		Florida's toll was 11 and both Alabama and George reported two people in their states were killed by Katrina.
		Critics have charged that the death toll would more likely be in the hundreds rather than thousands, so it is now apparent that the truth lay somewhere in-between the estimates of the Mayor and the critics.
		Rita has forced another evacuation of New Orleans, where the death toll is expected to rise significantly as recovery workers continue to discover more bodies.
	www.katrina-hurricane.biz /katrina-deathtoll.htm (403 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Middle East \| Iraq death toll 'soared post-war'
		A study published by the Lancet says the risk of death by violence for civilians in Iraq is now 58 times higher than before the US-led invasion.
		They found the relative risk, the risk of deaths from any cause, was two-and-a-half times higher for Iraqi civilians after the 2003 invasion than in the preceding 15 months.
		Human rights groups say the occupying powers have failed in their duty to catalogue the deaths, giving the impression that ordinary Iraqis' lives are worth less than those of their soldiers for whom detailed statistics are available.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/3962969.stm (680 words)

	CNN.com - Tsunami death toll - Feb 21, 2005
		(CNN) -- Relief officials are working to assess the death tolls from the December 26 tsunami that killed tens of thousands of people in more than 11 countries.
		As of February 22, government agencies and the United Nations said the death toll stood at 169,752 with 127,294 people listed as missing.
		Sri Lanka: The overall death toll for Sri Lanka stands at 30,974.
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/asiapcf/12/28/tsunami.deaths/index.html (290 words)

	USATODAY.com - Not found or not existing, 40 names to leave WTC death toll (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		New York City lowered the official death toll from the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center to 2,752, down from the city's peak of 6,453 two weeks after the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
		The death estimates include 147 people who died on the two airplanes that crashed into the World Trade Center, as well as firefighters and police officers who died during rescue efforts.
		Other death tolls from Sept. 11, 2001, are unchanged: 184 died when American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon, and 40 died when United Airlines Flight 93 crashed in rural Pennsylvania.
	www.usatoday.com /news/sept11/2003-10-29-attacks-toll_x.htm (473 words)

	NationMaster - Statistics > Tsunami > Death toll by country
		The new figure lifted the total global death toll from the tsunami disaster to 226,566, although the number continues to rise as more deaths are reported around the region.
		The staggering death count came as Indonesia said it was hopeful of holding talks with rebels in Aceh, where the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) has waged a bloody, three-decade long battle for independence from Jakarta's rule.
		The UN emergency relief operations coordinator said the death toll was approaching 150,000 and Sweden's foreign minister said it could go as high as 200,000.
	www.nationmaster.com /graph-T/dis_tsu_dea_tol (932 words)

	Clear The Air \| Reports (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The deaths from power plant pollution exceed the death toll from other causes commonly understood to be major public policy priorities.
		Moreover, the 18,000 deaths that could be avoided by cleaning up the nation's power plants are three times the number of automobile fatalities avoided each year through the use of safety belts.
		Abt Associates estimates that only 259 deaths are attributable to power plant pollution in California and the state ranked almost last in per capita impact (1.4 deaths per 100,000 adults).
	www.cleartheair.org.cob-web.org:8888 /fact/mortality/findings.vtml (901 words)

	All Headline News - China Officials Accused Of Death Toll Cover Up - October 30, 2006
		Officials reported the death toll at 518 Saturday.
		The Hunan province government has accused local officials of covering up the actual number of deaths and threatened to punish those who are found guilty.
		AHN shall not be liable of delays, errors or omissions in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon.
	www.allheadlinenews.com /articles/7004299425 (246 words)

	Civilian Death Toll in Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The results, which showed a more than a doubling of the death rate among civilians, were shocking to anyone who has not seen war close at hand—especially a war conducted primarily by bombing densely populated areas.
		The Iraq Body Count (available at http://iraqbodycount.net), which totals up deaths from newspaper reports that are confirmed by hospitals and morgues and carefully excludes any deaths that conceivably involve Iraqi combatants, reveals the same trends and patterns of mortality.
		Independent journalists in Iraq constantly risk death by kidnapping, “accident,” or “friendly fire.” The progressive Italian journalist Guiliana Sgrena was compiling a report on civilian casualties resulting from U.S. air assaults during the recent attack on Fallujah.
	home.comcast.net /~ndpwnew/PeaceAndWar/TheCivilianDeathTollInIraq.htm (1135 words)

	CBS Blows Hurricane Season Death Toll Out of Proportion
		The deadliest storm of the 2005 season, Hurricane Katrina, was certainly big, bad, and costly, but the toll it took on human life, while tragic, was nowhere near as horrific as previous hurricanes.
		At least 8,000 perished in the turn-of-century storm, with the actual death toll possibly as high as 12,000, according to the NHC.
		By comparison, the death toll from Katrina at the time of Acosta’s report was significantly lower.
	www.freemarketproject.org /news/2005/news20051130b.asp (380 words)

	Valenzuela's Veritas: The Killing Fields: Ghosts of the Walking Dead (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		America’s weaponized instruments of death and army of conditioned automatons devastated Iraq and its population during the Gulf War, bombing cities, decimating infrastructure and destroying the ministries of governance.
		From babies to pregnant women to mothers to boys and girls to peasant fathers to grandmothers and grandfathers, the toll of death was undoubtedly massive, for the aerial reign of terror was incessant, at all hours of the day and night.
		The misery and hatred and death and maiming engendered by our terrorism was conveniently whitewashed, made to disappear in a war with images only of “smart bombs” destroying their target.
	valenzuelasveritas.blogspot.com.cob-web.org:8888 /2006/01/killing-fields-ghosts-of-walking-dead.html (5020 words)

	Katrina death toll now at 1,281 \| TheNewsTribune.com \| Tacoma, WA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The number brings to 1,281 the deaths from Katrina reported by state and local officials in five states.
		Harrison County Coroner Gary Hargrove, who is overseeing victim recovery in the Mississippi coastal counties devastated by the Aug. 29 hurricane, said Tuesday that search teams found one body Friday near the Jordan River in Hancock County.
		Death tolls reported by state and local officials as of Wednesday in other states are: Louisiana, 1,035; Florida, 14; Alabama, 2; and Georgia, 2.
	www.thenewstribune.com /24hour/special_reports/katrina/story/2820059p-11463532c.html (250 words)

	Questions & Answers: Death toll
		The two words were put together because the word toll then didn’t necessarily mean death, but any loss or injury or cost in health (I’d argue it still does: it’s in modern dictionaries).
		It was a development of its original sense of a tax, charge or imposed cost and seems to have appeared in American English in the 1870s, often in the phrase to take its toll that we still use.
		These days it has to be classed as a fixed phrase that’s virtually an idiom, but one that’s still useful to make clear what’s meant.
	www.worldwidewords.org /qa/qa-dea6.htm (293 words)

	Final Death Toll Of The Attack Upon The World Trade Centre
		The official death toll has fluctuated frequently since two hijacked passenger planes were flown into the 110-storey twin towers of the World Trade Centre at a time when tens of thousands were normally in the vicinity of the lower Manhattan complex.
		The 40 names removed from the twin towers toll had been legally declared dead, with death certificates issued based on documented proof or witness reports that they were in the World Trade Centre or aboard one of the hijacked planes.
		The official death toll of more than 6500 in the middle of September declined steadily as duplications were discovered and people reported as missing were found.
	www.ourcivilisation.com /usa/toll.htm (1374 words)

	Study Claims Iraq's 'Excess' Death Toll Has Reached 655,000 - washingtonpost.com
		The surveyors said they found a steady increase in mortality since the invasion, with a steeper rise in the last year that appears to reflect a worsening of violence as reported by the U.S. military, the news media and civilian groups.
		Of the total 655,000 estimated "excess deaths," 601,000 resulted from violence and the rest from disease and other causes, according to the study.
		The recent survey got the same estimate for immediate post-invasion deaths as the early survey, which gives the researchers confidence in the methods.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/10/AR2006101001442.html (665 words)

	Cold wave wreaks a toll of death across central Europe
		In Latvia, at least ten people have frozen to death in the capital Riga since Saturday, while at least nine people shared their fate in neighbouring Lithuania over the same period, according to BNS.
		The death toll in Romania climbed by 10 in 24 hours, as the temperature in the Carpathian highlands plunged to minus 30 degrees.
		The deaths bring to 161 so far the number of cold-related fatalities in Poland since the beginning of the winter.
	news.monstersandcritics.com /europe/article_1078906.php (853 words)

	Plague
		As early as January 1348, Genoese ships had carried the infection to their home port and to Venice, and from there the Black Death spread quickly throughout the Italian peninsula.
		Florence was so devastated that for a long time the disease itself was known as "the plague of Florence." Estimates of the dead vary greatly: Villani says three out of every five died; Antoninus, the Archbishop, estimates the toll at 60,000; Boccaccio says 100,000.
		Main: Plague: Effects of the Plague: The Death Toll
	www.brown.edu /Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/plague/effects/death_toll.shtml (175 words)

	Iraq Body Count
		The worldwide update of reported civilian deaths in the Iraq war and occupation.
		What we are attempting to provide is a credible compilation of civilian deaths that have been reported by recognized sources.
		Our maximum therefore refers to reported deaths - which can only be a sample of true deaths unless one assumes that every civilian death has been reported.
	www.iraqbodycount.net (217 words)

	frontline: the gulf war: appendix: iraqi death toll
		Independent analysts generally agree the Iraqi death toll was well below initial post-war estimates.
		According to "Gulf War Air Power Survey" by Thomas A. Keaney and Eliot A. Cohen, (a report commissioned by the U.S. Air Force; 1993-ISBN 0-16-041950-6), there were an estimated 10-12,000 Iraqi combat deaths in the air campaign and as many as 10,000 casualties in the ground war.
		One infamous incident during the war highlighted the question of large-scale Iraqi combat deaths.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/appendix/death.html (281 words)

	U.S. death toll in Iraq hits 2,500 - Conflict in Iraq - MSNBC.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The latest death was announced as Congress was launching a symbolic election-year debate over the war, with Republicans rallying against calls by some Democrats to set a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops.
		Nevertheless, reaching the new marker underscored the continuing violence in Iraq just after an upbeat Bush returned from a surprise visit to Baghdad determined that the tide was beginning to turn.
		Bush’s visit sought to capitalize on the death of Iraq’s most feared terrorist, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a key victory for the U.S. military, as well as recent progress in setting up the new Iraqi government.
	msnbc.msn.com /id/13237981 (823 words)

	KOMO-TV - Seattle, Washington - News Archive - Iraq Death Toll Continues To Rise
		The dead soldier was from the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, the military said.
		The second death came in an attack on a military convoy at 7:45 a.m.
		The deaths brought to 281 the number of soldiers killed since the war began on March 20.
	www.komotv.com /stories/26847.htm (386 words)

	Chernobyl death toll grossly underestimated \| Greenpeace International
		It challenges the UN International Atomic Energy Agency Chernobyl Forum report, which predicted 4,000 additional deaths attributable to the accident as a gross simplification of the real breadth of human suffering.
		The new data, based on Belarus national cancer statistics, predicts approximately 270,000 cancers and 93,000 fatal cancer cases caused by Chernobyl.
		The report also concludes that on the basis of demographic data, during the last 15 years, 60,000 people have additionally died in Russia because of the Chernobyl accident, and estimates of the total death toll for the Ukraine and Belarus could reach another 140,000.
	www.greenpeace.org /international/news/chernobyl-deaths-180406 (450 words)

	Iraq Coalition Casualties
		Patrick Gawkins...told the newspaper 810 deaths, or about 40 percent of the nearly 2,200 Army deaths in the two theaters had been reviewed, and families were given wrong or misleading information about the circumstances.
		A University of Alabama freshman shot to death following a minor vehicle collision after the UA homecoming concert had survived a year of dangerous duty in Iraq with the Mississippi National Guard, an officer in his unit says
		A deadly bomb attack has ripped through a crowd of Shiite labourers, killing 29 in the restive Baghdad suburb of Sadr City, as the month's death toll for the US-led coalition in Iraq hit 105.
	icasualties.org /oif (1433 words)

	A Harvest of Death (Getty Museum)
		Slowly, over the misty fields of Gettysburg--as all reluctant to expose their ghastly horrors to the light--came the sunless morn, after the retreat by [General Robert.
		Through the shadowy vapors, it was, indeed, a "harvest of death" that was presented; hundreds and thousands of torn Union and rebel soldiers--although many of the former were already interred--strewed the now quiet fighting ground, soaked by the rain, which for two days had drenched the country with its fitful showers.
		Both text and image eloquently capture the war's toll of death and destruction, especially apparent after the Battle of Gettysburg, which took place from July 1 to July 3, 1863.
	www.getty.edu /art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=64592 (181 words)

	U.S. death toll in Iraq reaches 2,000
		The U.S. military has announced the death of the 2,000th American service member to perish in the Iraqi campaign, but a spokesman tried to downplay the benchmark, calling it "artificial."
		The U.S. military doesn't release a running tally of deaths in American units assigned to the Iraq campaign, in Iraq, Kuwait or elsewhere.
		However, Alexander's death brings the total to 2,000, according to an unofficial count by CBC News.
	www.cbc.ca /world/story/2005/10/25/us-deaths-051025.html (1273 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| Death toll increases in Sulawesi
		At least 185 people are now known to have died in flash floods and landslides in the Indonesian province of South Sulawesi.
		The death toll could rise further, as rescue teams continue to find bodies.
		More than 120 people are still missing after the floods, and rescuers fear many of them were swept out to sea.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/5100994.stm (329 words)

	ABC News: Lebanese Premier: Death Toll Tops 900
		Lebanese Prime Minister Says His Country's Death Toll Tops 900
		BEIRUT, Lebanon Aug 3, 2006 (AP)— Lebanon's death toll in more than three weeks of Israel-Hezbollah fighting has reached more than 900, Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora said Thursday in a video statement to an Islamic conference in Malaysia.
		He said Israel's offensive on Lebanon "is taking an enormous toll on human life and infrastructure, and has totally ravaged our country and shattered our economy."
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=2268268 (219 words)

	Death Toll - Free Music Downloads - MP3 Downloads - Download.com Music
		Death Toll is made up of 3 kids.
		Death Toll has finished recording their demo and will be releasing their full length cd soon.
		This song is saying that we cant put up with anything anymore.
	music.download.com /deathtoll/3600-8674-100332028.html (133 words)

	CNN.com - Russia school siege toll tops 350 - Sep 4, 2004
		Timeline reconstructs what happened as the standoff ended in a hail of gunfire.
		BESLAN, Russia (CNN) -- The death toll in the Russian hostage crisis has climbed beyond 350 as President Vladimir Putin denounced the massacre as "an attack on our country."
		In a nationally televised speech Saturday, Putin said the fall of the Soviet Union had left the country unable to react to attacks, and he urged Russians to join together.
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/europe/09/04/russia.school/index.html (686 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)