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...causing an increase in his Tourette's symptoms. The moment Tim got home from practice, he'd start throwing his head back, blinking his eyes faster, doing a stutter step. During games, Howard says, his concentration is so fierce that Tourette's rarely surfaces. But in the locker room beforehand, his tics - minor compared with many Tourette's sufferers' - multiply. He won't take medicine to control them; he won't risk even a slight dulling of the reflexes. Instead, Howard does what he's been doing since his symptoms first surfaced in the fifth grade: tamp down any rogue...
...Still, the outcome of the talks?which included a commitment to confer again before July and to set up a working group to hammer out an agenda beforehand?was an improvement over the last such session. The six countries met for the first time last August, but those talks ended on a belligerent note after North Korea threatened to conduct a nuclear test. Last week, according to a statement issued by Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wang Yi, all parties could at least agree that they had committed themselves "to a nuclear weapons-free Korean Peninsula...
Strokes seem to come on with a frightening suddenness, but new research in the journal Stroke suggests that subtle signs may be measurable as much as 10 years beforehand. The finding comes out of a study of 2,175 men and women ages 33 to 88 with no history of stroke or dementia. Researchers found that as the risk of stroke increased--indicated by variables like age, blood pressure, diabetes, smoking status, history of heart disease--the subjects' cognitive functions declined, perhaps owing to small, undetectable changes in the brain. "People don't just wake up one morning and find...
...four of us were talking beforehand and we knew that it was coming down to this relay,” George said. “As exciting and nerve-racking as that might be, it’s likely that our big meets this season—H-Y-P, Easterns—will come down to races like this...Our mentality was that this was just a rehearsal for the rest of the season...
...turning point in the meet,” Wilson said. “We had lost a few events beforehand and we were concerned about whether or not we would win the meet...