Photographer Brian Romeijn captures the decaying 'Orient Express' train

I want only combat troops, no decaying old men or children.

I wanted a simple way to represent a living body inhabiting these decaying, derelict spaces.

though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth eaten.

though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth eaten.

Therefore we don't faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

Therefore we don't faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

A body usually decomposes in water, but cold well water can retard the decaying process, facilitating cleaning of the head for identification purposes.

I would rather start a new life to decaying with you learned some of the money and jewellery in your box with my own body

An urban explorer has captured these remarkable photos of the decaying remains of a passenger train that was once one of the finest ways to travel.

North Korea, which never had a transition and maintains heavy handed central planning, is an economic basket case. And soft socialism combined with subsidized national champions is decaying in France.

Fitting a rising power into a decaying international system has rarely occurred peacefully. Perhaps superior Western and Chinese statesmanship will avert a major war but this, in historical terms, would be a bonus.

Fading memories of past experiences allow new memories to bloom, much as decaying leaves allow for new growth. Forgetting thus affords us a second chance, individually and as a society, to rise above our past mistakes and misdeeds, to accept that humans change over time.

New cities are constantly ripening like so many cherries on a tree, drawing people away from older, original cities. And the new cities have a way of looking brighter and fresher than the old urban areas, which are often seen as jumbled and decaying.

The decaying Soviet regime was unable to crush Russia s growing democratic movement it would take Vladimir Putin to do that a decade later. By opting for the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, the Chinese Communist leadership set their country on a road starkly different from the one on which Russia subsequently embarked.

As global markets plummet, some version of the rescue plan will almost certainly be put to another vote in Congress. Unless the plan is markedly different from the current one, while it may help Wall Street,  what about the economy? What about taxpayers, already beleaguered by unprecedented deficits, and with bills still to pay for decaying infrastructure and two wars?

As global markets plummet, some version of the rescue plan will almost certainly be put to another vote in Congress. Unless the plan is markedly different from the current one, while it may help Wall Street, what about the economy? What about taxpayers, already beleaguered by unprecedented deficits, and with bills still to pay for decaying infrastructure and two wars?

In 2008, Australia s then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologized to his country s Aborigines, while Queen Elizabeth II offered a moving gesture of contrition in Ireland a few months ago. And now, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, on a recent visit to the Caucasus, reiterated his advice to the Turks to repent for the massacres of Armenians committed by the decaying Ottoman regime in 1915.

The assassination of the heir of the Austro Hungarian Empire at Sarajevo in July 1914 was not the cause of World War I, but its pretext. The big picture then was not the anarchist plot to destabilize empires, but the rise of exasperated nationalisms, coupled with the suicidal instinct of a decaying order and the fatal mechanism of the logic of secret alliances.

America faces long run and short run problems decaying infrastructure, weakening educational systems, and a dysfunctional health care system that produces sub standard outcomes at twice the cost of any other industrial country. Solving any of these three problems would go a long way toward resolving the long run financing imbalance between current tax rates and America s long run social insurance promises that the debt ceiling debate s instigators supposedly want to address.