31.   Eiichi pulled a hot towel from his face so he could be heard as he explained that his own sister had barely escaped death in Kobe this week.

32.   For Oric, who survived the Sahanici massacre, the question is why he escaped death.

33.   He had narrowly escaped death, he said.

34.   He almost could do it without even thinking -- until the day nearly four years ago when he narrowly escaped death himself.

35.   He is now best known as the guy who barely escaped death.

36.   His mother, Ros Kong, had been one of the great court dancers, but she managed to hide the fact and thus escaped certain death.

37.   However, she somehow escaped death and on Wednesday was on the front page of two national newspapers here.

38.   In Spain this week the leader of the main opposition party narrowly escaped death at the hands of the Basque separatist movement.

39.   Jeanfreau, the bus driver who escaped death by inches, said he has been waiting a long time for justice.

40.   Nearly three years have passed since San Francisco firefighter Melanie Stapper escaped death in a flame-filled garage.