Word: aneurysm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clear political objective.'' In one particularly heated debate, Powell recalls U.N. Ambassador Madeleine Albright asking him in frustration, "What's the point of having this superb military that you're always talking about if we can't use it?'' As Powell relates it, "I thought I would have an aneurysm. American G.I.s were not toy soldiers to be moved around on some sort of global game board...I told Ambassador Albright that the U.S. military would carry out any mission it was handed, but my advice would always be that the tough political goals had to be set first. Then...
RECOVERING. MICHAEL STIPE, 35, singer; from a hernia operation. R.E.M.'s frontman learned of his condition just before a recent concert in Prague by the surgery-prone band (the drummer had an aneurysm fixed in March). Well, everybody hurts sometimes: Stipe warbled through the Prague show anyway, then flew to Atlanta for the procedure...
DIED. JAMES L. "BUD" WALTON, 73, billionaire who with his older brother Sam opened the single store in 1962 that eventually grew into the Wal-Mart discount chain, the largest retailer in the country; following surgery for a stomach aneurysm; in Little Rock, Arkansas...
...aneurysm last summer and[McArthur] was at the hospital almostimmediately," Bowen says. "He got us the bestdoctors and then continued to keep [them] over thenext month...
...device could greatly simplify the surgery required to deal with aneurysm, according to a research team at Stanford University. An aneurysm -- a ballooning of a weakened artery -- frequently occurs on the aorta, the critical vessel which carries blood from the heart. Developing painlessly and often undetected, aneurysms can burst without warning and cause death. The current surgery to deal with aortic aneurysm is very complicated: doctors open the chest and replace the fragile portion of the artery with a graft from another one in the body. The new experimental device, basically a cylindrical patch that reinforces the weakened area...