Word: clots
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...stretching India to the limit greet us as soon as we enter the quake zone. Even before we reach the broken houses, the landslides and the homeless droves, my translator Shaeeq and I get choked up in a traffic jam-at the head of which is an angry clot of young men banging sticks on the tops of the car that try to pass, while women weep on the verge. "We are not begging, sir, we are not begging," one protester says, with the look of a man who hasn't slept for days. "We want help to remove...
...Carlos Clot, private eye, has seen it all. Born just before the oil ran out, he has endured Spain's election of a communist government, the resulting U.S. invasion and the rise of English as the official language. Now he prowls the carless, bicycle-clogged streets of Madrid, tracking runaway kids and errant spouses for $100 a day plus expenses. He keeps a bottle of whiskey in his filing cabinet under the letter I, for Indispensable. Into his crummy office one day walks ? ah, but we're getting ahead of the story. Clot is the hard-boiled, hard-drinking hero...
Friday, Oct. 14. “The Year of Magical Thinking.” The prolific writer Joan Didion recounts her husband’s sudden death and her daughter’s extraordinary recovery from a massive blood clot. 6:30 p.m. First Parish Church, 3 Church St. $3. Tickets can be purchased at Harvard Book Store or by calling...
...just weeks before he planned to leave his home, Case went in for a routine operation to clear his sinus passages. It ended with titanium plates replacing his sinuses and a blood clot forming in his brain...
...triple rule-out." Here's a typical situation: a middle-age woman walks in complaining of chest pains but otherwise seems fine. The biggest concerns are that she might be having a heart attack, that her aorta may have developed a tear or that she has a major clot in the blood vessels of the lungs. Any of these could swiftly be deadly. Her electrocardiogram comes back normal, and blood tests indicate no cardiac damage. With no compelling reason to suspect a heart attack, it's hard to make the case for ordering a cardiac catheterization. But because she continues...