Word: clots
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DIED. Nino Rota, 67, Italian composer best known for some 100 movie scores, including the Oscar-winning music for Godfather II and nearly all of Director Federico Fellini's films; of a blood clot; in Rome. A native of Milan, Rota composed his first opera at 14 and in 1931 went to the U.S. to study at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute. Returning to Italy two years later, he continued writing operas (The Italian Straw Hat), symphonies and chamber works during his next 45 years, but achieved his greatest success scoring such films as Fellini's La Strada...
...proclaim?" Suddenly his throat tightened as though the angel were choking him. Again came the command: "Proclaim!" And again the terrified Muhammad felt the choking grip. "Proclaim!" ordered the angel for a third time. "Proclaim in the name of the Lord, the Creator who created man from a clot of blood! Proclaim! Your Lord is most gracious. It is he who has taught man by the pen that which he does not know...
Still, the work could be undone by any number of complications, including a blood clot, infection or kidney damage. If the healing continues, the doctors will attempt to rejoin the leg's severed nerve in a few months. Though they conceded that the chances of retaining the limb are only fifty-fifty, they were optimistic. So was Elizabeth, who basked in all the attention and even asked...
...borrowed a nom de guerre from an Algerian village during the revolution against France and kept it ever since. If his movements were mysterious, so was the way in Boumedienne which he ran his country for 13 years. Last week the mystery continued as Boumedienne, 53, with a blood clot on the brain, lay near death in an Algiers hospital...
While a team of 40 doctors from eight nations, including the U.S. and the Soviet Union, sought to remove the clot, one prognosis already seemed clear. The tall, austere Algerian leader will rule no longer. An era in which Boumedienne thrust stability on a fledging country and brought it eminence is ending. No successor has been groomed, and Boumedienne's demise could lead to a power struggle. Some observers believe that the two factions in the nine-man Council of the Revolution, one led by dapper Foreign Minister Abdelaziz Bouteflika, 41, the other by Colonel Mohammed Salah Yahiaoui...