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...prenuptial agreement--but he decided to kill her. He was a lonely man in a big hurry--mortality was staring him in the face. Stahl was 57 years old, 5 ft. 11 in. and 180 lbs.; he exercised daily and ate a healthy diet. But he had had triple-bypass surgery at 37, numerous angioplasty treatments since then and, in July 1999, a quadruple-bypass operation that doctors had given him only a 20% chance of surviving. His heart was more congested than the Los Angeles freeway system. "Ken Stahl was going to die very soon. He wanted things...
Regardless of how well Cheney fields reporters' questions or waves to the cameras, he can't erase a history of four heart attacks, one quadruple-bypass surgery and a coronary artery propped open with a metal stent--all over a 22-year period in a man considered far too young to have suffered so many setbacks...
...facts about the state of Cheney's health, but new details revealed by his doctors last week indicate there is room for improvement. We knew that he waited until his third heart attack to quit smoking. We now know that he has gained 40 lbs. since his 1988 bypass and exercises just twice a week. His doctors can do only so much. If he wants to avoid another emergency trip to the hospital, he is going to have to take responsibility for his health and start making some changes...
Every fall, over 80 Harvard students apply for University endorsement, a necessary prerequisite for applying to the Rhodes scholarship itself--though many schools bypass this process and instead endorse all their applicants outright. Harvard's complex, two-tiered endorsement committee consistently rejects more than half who apply. Before getting started, these potential Rhodes Scholars are stopped in their tracks, deemed unworthy by the committee of even having a shot at the mystical award...
Despite repeated requests for information, his doctors have declined to say much about the four bypass grafts that were stitched into Cheney's heart 12 years ago. Typically, such grafts last 15 years or so before they have to be replaced. Cardiologists trying to read between the lines of the press releases assume his grafts must be holding up, because the stent was not placed in a bypassed artery...