Word: birthday
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...York City-raised champ began climbing the ladder to excellence early; her father, a former collegiate fencer, introduced his son, sophomore Sam Cross, to the sport early on. But it was at Sam’s ninth birthday party when his younger sister took up the mantle...
...Medicine, in which physicians at Johns Hopkins described a group of 18 mostly older women and one man who developed serious heart problems after experiencing a sudden emotional shock, such as the death of a loved one, or, in the case of one 60-year-old woman, a surprise birthday party...
...good news about the condition doctors are calling the broken-heart syndrome is that it's reversible--provided the initial shock isn't too great. And repeat occurrences appear to be uncommon, no matter how many surprise birthday parties they throw...
Swimming for 16 hours straight in freezing water, fighting a 2-m.p.h. current and dodging ships might not be everyone's fantasy. But surrounded by his family on his 69th birthday, upon being asked how he wanted to celebrate his 70th, George Brunstad heard the words "swim the English Channel" pop out of his mouth. At that point Brunstad, who happens to be actor Matt Damon's uncle, had been swimming competitively in Masters programs for 31 years, and he had won more than 100 Masters championships. As he recalls, "Everyone said, 'Yeah, you can do it! That...
...outdone himself this year. Days before his 63rd birthday this week, his government announced that, as has long been suspected by U.S. intelligence, North Korea has indeed built nuclear weapons "for self-defense." Though the bulletin ended years of speculation about the general state of Kim's nuclear-weapons program, the declaration was actually two blows in one: Pyongyang also announced it was pulling out of joint talks with the U.S., China, Japan, Russia and South Korea to keep the Korean peninsula nuclear-free. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, hoping to play down the news, called the announcement "unfortunate...