Word: brained
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Fusco can now take aim at the ECAC consecutive game scoring record of 32, held by Brain Cornell of Cornell (1967-69). Craig Homola of Vermont (1978-80) and fellow junior Adam Ontes of RPI, who ran 32 straight until North Dakota shut him out in last year's NCAA quarter finals...
Haydon was aware of the considerable risks involved. Though Barney Clark had survived 112 days with the device, he had suffered unexplained brain seizures that left him depressed and disabled. Schroeder, too, was struggling with serious neurological problems, caused primarily by a stroke that occurred 18 days after his implant surgery, leaving him with impaired speech, loss of short-term memory and weakness on his right side. Schroeder's recovery was further hampered in January by seizures (a common complication of strokes) and, in recent weeks, by fever that ranged as high as 105 degrees...
...over and looked closely at that before going forward," says Dr. Donald Hill, chief of cardiovascular surgery at San Francisco's Pacific Presbyterian Medical Center. The strokes may have been caused by blood clots that formed somewhere in or near the artificial heart and then traveled to the brain. According to Cardiologist Fredarick Gobel of the Minneapolis Heart Institute, the risk of such traveling clots, or emboli, is great "whenever you have foreign + materials in the vascular system." To reduce this risk for Haydon, doctors gave him anticoagulants before and after surgery, though this increases the risk of bleeding...
...others are gambling on the notion that the new requirements imposed on building will not adversely affect construction and dampen the current commercial boom. They figure that developers will still want to take advantage of Cambridge's prestigious address and companies will continue to prize access to university brain-power and facilities enough to bear what Sullivan estimates is a modest three percent increase in costs...
...Paris, the left-leaning French weekly Le Nouvel Observateur said that Chernenko had suffered a "brain (stroke) or cardiac attack." The attack occurred a week ago and robbed Chernenko of his speech, the magazine claimed...