What links all these disparate details is a confused and volatile concern about how, and even whether, our lives still belong to us.

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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's office issued a statement Thursday expressing "grave concern" about the incident, but said U.N. officials lacked details about exactly what had happened.

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In the case of Leeds General Infirmary, which had its child heart surgery halted just before Easter amid concern about high death rates only for the suspension to be lifted this week, crucial details were missing which appear to have skewed the overall picture.

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So I noticed in the Twitter traffic that when this first hit, when this first kind of hit Twitter, there was all kinds of, you know, concern, gasps, worry, fear, etcetera, and then when the details started to trickle out about the fact that this was sort of black on black violence, the interest - especially on Twitter - started to die down.

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