In West Africa, for example, where meat is a luxury and babies must be weaned early to make room at the breast for later arrivals, a childhood menace is kwashiorkor, or `` Red Johnny '', a growth-stunting protein deficiency ( signs: reddish hair, bloated belly ) that kills more than half its victims, leaves the rest prey for parasites and lingering tropical disease.

What concerns him much more is the relationship of diet to the nation's No. 1 killer: coronary artery disease, which accounts for more than half of all heart fatalities and kills 500,000 Americans a year -- twice the toll from all varieties of cancer, five times the deaths from automobile accidents.

He kills 28 people in the Trojan War, and his career during that war is retold by Roman historian Gaius Julius Hyginus ( c. 64 BC – AD 17 ) in his Fabulae.

An antibacterial is a compound or substance that kills or slows down the growth of bacteria.

The process also kills Pham and strands the other humans on the Tines world, now in the depths of the " Slow Zone " where rescue by an advanced civilization is impossible.

In particular, it is pointed out that he who deliberately kills an animal will on his part be eaten by an animal in a future existence due to karmic retribution.

In contrast, Jains agree with Hindus that violence in self-defense can be justified, and they agree that a soldier who kills enemies in combat is performing a legitimate duty.

It was used to good advantage in the 1991 Gulf War, where it scored many USAF air-to-air kills ; its kill probability, overall, is still less than 40 %.

This observation, and the fact that kill timeframes shorten as the percentage of copper in an alloy increases, is proof that copper is the ingredient in brass and other copper alloys that kills the microbes.

In it he, his wife Wealhþeow, and his warriors spend their time singing and celebrating, until Grendel, a troll-like monster who is pained by the noise, attacks the hall and kills and devours many of Hroðgar's warriors while they sleep.

A bactericide or bacteriocide, sometimes abbreviated Bcidal, is a substance that kills bacteria and, ideally, nothing else.

For the remainder of his reign there are problems: one of his sons rapes one of his daughters, another son kills the first, his favourite son rebels and is killed, until finally only two contenders for the succession remain, one of them Bathsheba's son Solomon.

( NA Broderick and others., 2006 ) This is contrary to the common misconception that Bt toxin kills the larvae by starvation.

Fox resumes the fight and kills Tsai before fleeing with the thief ( who is revealed to be Fox's protegée, Jen ).

* In Iliad Menelaos kills a minor character, Pylaimenes, in combat ; but later he is still alive to witness the death of his son.

Humanure kills these pathogens both by the extreme heat of the composting and the extended amount of time ( 1 to 2 years ) that it is allowed to decompose.

The cane toad is now considered a pest and an invasive species in many of its introduced regions ; of particular concern is its toxic skin, which kills many animals — native predators and otherwise — when ingested.

Coyote kills can be distinguished from wolf kills by the fact that there is less damage to the underlying tissues.

Cyril is portrayed as a fanatic who kills Jews and others who have not converted to Christianity from the traditional religions of antiquity.

The plot is thwarted and the secret preserved-the Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam kills the Mentat and arranges for his corpse to be shipped home to Giedi Prime.

Absalom is caught by his hair in the branches of an oak and David ’ s general Joab kills him as he hangs there.

Really, he said to himself, nobody kills a man just as a favor!!

Arming himself, Corum attacks and kills several of the Mabden before being captured and tortured.

In It's Not Funny If I Have to Explain It, Adams recounts having been attacked for the alleged political content of his work, although in the case of one such strip ( where oil drilling kills a unicorn ) he excuses himself by saying " I just thought the image was funny.

He kills himself after learning that Kratos killed Icarus ( who apparently survived his tumble to the sea ) in God of War II.

* 1987 – Pennsylvania politician R. Budd Dwyer shoots and kills himself during a televised press conference, leading to debates on boundaries in journalism.

Obedient to their mother, the twins slay Niobe's seven sons and seven daughters, leaving her childless, and her husband Amphion kills himself.

Shortly thereafter, Reactron kills himself, initiating a chain reaction which ultimately destroys New Krypton and all but a handful of its 100, 000 Kryptonian inhabitants.

* 2009 – Winnenden school shooting: 16 are killed and 11 are injured before recent-graduate Tim Kretschmer shoots and kills himself, leading to tightened weapons restrictions in Germany.

Worf then kills Gowron himself, and rather than accept the title of Chancellor, gives it to Martok (" Tacking Into the Wind ").

* 2001 – Zug massacre: In Zug, Switzerland, Friedrich Leibacher shoots 18 citizens, killing 14 and then kills himself.

Gray shoots Crowe in the abdomen, and seconds later kills himself with the gun.

Sixteen year old Clark kills himself as police rush hilltop.

* October 27 – Robert Poulin kills 1 and wounds 5 at St. Pius X High School in Ottawa, Canada before shooting himself.

* January 22 – Pennsylvania Treasurer Budd Dwyer shoots and kills himself with a revolver during a televised press conference after being found guilty on charges of bribery, fraud, conspiracy, and racketeering.

* November 10 – Louis Lingg, sentenced to be hanged for his alleged role in the Haymarket Riot bomb, kills himself by dynamite.

* January 17 – Stockton massacre: Patrick Edward Purdy kills 5 children, wounds 30 and then shoots himself in Stockton, California.

* Inge the Elder returns to Svealand, kills Blot-Sweyn and anew proclaims himself King of Sweden.

A man climbs the hill east of the Palace, curses the Emperor and kills himself.

After Geoffrey kills himself, and they are stuck in the desert, she admits she always loved Almásy.

* King Kenneth II of Scotland kills Amlaíb, brother of King Culen, to establish himself as Culen's successor.

Raskolnikov, the anti-hero of Dostoevsky ’ s novel Crime and Punishment, puts this philosophy into action when he kills an elderly pawnbroker and her sister, later rationalizing this act to himself with the words, "... it wasn ’ t a human being I killed, it was a principle!

After the defeat, Hamilcar kills himself.

Haemon then kills Antigone and himself.

* Jumper ( suicide ), a person who kills himself by jumping from a height.

On the Gallic side, one of the leaders, Concolitanus, is captured in battle, while the leader of the Gaesatae, Aneroëstes, kills himself when the battle is lost.