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By the time Lisbon mounted a rescue mission, the pirates had long fled (though Montluc himself had been killed during the raid).
Yet they remind us that the number of children killed by guns skyrocketed in the '80s and while tailing off in the '90s remains far higher than in decades past.
But this economy seems so strong that the danger of having the boom killed by inflation--which would eventually lead to very sharp interest-rate hikes-- feels more powerful than the danger of having the boom killed by a slowdown.
The WP and USAT stories about the FAA move point out that the combustibility of insulation is thought to be a cause of the Swissair crash off Nova Scotia that killed 229 people.
However, events turned profoundly against Cleopatra when Caesar was suddenly killed and she fled back to Alexandria to commit suicide in 30 b.c.