Word: fluids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bryant was hospitalized last spring with fluid in his lungs. He has since given up chain-smoking unfiltered cigarettes and has begun swimming daily to build his stamina. Says one friend: "He'll never admit it, but he wants those records so bad he can taste it. He's got himself into the best shape he has been in for years because he has to have good health if he is going to win football games...
...once driven players to unconsciousness under the Texas sun hired an expert in tropical medicine to teach him about fluid intake, electrolyte balance and heat-humidity ratios. As the scandals recede in memory, his skills as coach have been increasingly appreciated...
...England Medical Center Hospital's pediatric unit in Boston, where Jeffrey was treated, and elsewhere, doctors are trying to find the cause of the disease, and its cure, by taking blood, spinal fluid and skin samples. Some are examined immediately, others frozen for future study. For now, says Jeffrey's physician, Richard Meade III, doctors confronted by a youngster with odd symptoms might "think of Kawasaki...
...crusty Avrea, who frets that inventors are treated as "second-class citizens," holds a 1970 patent for a "coolant recovery system" that includes a small plastic bottle attached to the radiator by tubing. Before Avrea's invention, hot radiators sometimes spilled frothy fluid onto the road through a pressure-relief valve, lowering efficiency and forcing drivers to check the coolant level. Now, that fluid flows into Avrea's container; when the engine cools, the liquid runs back through the tubing into the radiator...
...sentimentalist's women's final. Evert Lloyd first won Wimbledon at 19, later added one more title. Goolagong was 19 when she won the title in 1971, enchanting English fans with her fluid strokes and gliding style. Both are married women now, and they came to the tournament as underdogs, only to play brilliantly. Evert Lloyd deposed the reigning champion, Martina Navratilova, 23, and Goolagong stopped the rising star, Tracy Austin, 17, to meet for the crown. But it was Goolagong, playing tennis as though it were a sonata, not a sport, who carried...