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DIED. CAROL MATTHAU, 78, gossipy memoirist and widow of actor Walter Matthau, whose friendships with the elite of New York City cafe society she wittily recounted in her 1992 book, Among the Porcupines; of a brain aneurysm; in New York City. Before her 41-year marriage to Matthau, she was twice wed to playwright William Saroyan. She had a long friendship with Truman Capote, who, she claimed, modeled the character of Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's after...
...DIED. MARC-VIVIEN FOE, 28, Cameroon-born international footballer, after collapsing during the semifinal against Colombia in the Confederations Cup, of suspected heart failure or aneurysm; in Lyon. A member of Cameroon's victorious team at the African Cup of Nations in 2002, the midfielder spent most of his professional career with French clubs Lens and Lyon?winning the French-league title with both teams?and with England's West Ham United and, most recently, Manchester City (on loan from Lyon). Fo?'s death stoked criticism that crowded football schedules are becoming dangerously taxing for players and renewed criticism...
...could almost make you think that everyone who sexually abuses a child is a Roman Catholic priest. In fact, the perpetrators are a disturbingly diverse lot. There's the Chicago-area nurse who molested up to 18 patients, including a 9-year-old girl who had suffered a brain aneurysm and later died. There's the 33-year-old Nevada day-care worker who committed hundreds of sexual acts on at least nine children, mostly ages 2 and 3--and videotaped them. Some of the most heartbreaking allegations involve the American Boychoir School, a top choral program in Princeton...
...works like this: a surgeon feeds a catheter from the groin into the affected blood vessel and then seeds the aneurysm with tiny platinum coils that promote clotting (see diagram). This seemed safer to Eastlund and would spare her a major operation. But, she wanted to know, are coils as effective as clips...
...study in the current issue of Neurosurgery helps answer that question. Researchers at the University of Illinois followed 141 aneurysm cases for an average of 16 months. They report that none of the patients suffered any subsequent bleeding, and in 85% of the cases the coils largely or completely filled in and blocked the aneurysm. The scientists did not provide a direct comparison, but Thompson reports that of the more than 500 aneurysms he has clipped, all but four closed up completely...