Word: gehrig
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...true Yankee dynasty used to be composed of five or six Hall of Famers--all of whom would be immortalized in Cooperstown wearing the pinstripes of the old New York Highlanders. I'm talking about guys like Lou Gehrig, a native New Yorker who played 2,130 consecutive games at first base for the Yankees, and Babe Ruth, who hit most of his 714 home runs in the House that Ruth himself Built. Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, Phil Rizzuto, Whitey Ford--all Yankee legends...
Ironically, however, Lou Gehrig--the man who held the record for most consecutive games played until Ripken broke it in 1995--also ended his streak by pulling himself out of the starting lineup on May 2, 1939. But Gehrig, a career .340 hitter, was batting .143 in 1939 and suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the illness that would eventually take his life and bear his name. Gehrig took the day off because he wanted to help his team...
...Reeve's cause now, however, is the Paralysis Foundation which has turned millions over to research that may soon help victims not just of paralysis but Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, MS, Lou Gehrig's disease and other degenerative neurological diseases. On Monday, researchers (helped with Reeve foundation and National Institutes of Health monies) announced they had developed the first successful procedure to convert cultured bone marrow stem cells exclusively into nerve cells. The research, published in the Journal of Neuroscience Research this month, could help in the treatment of everything from spinal cord injury and stroke to degenerative diseases like...
...eliminate the national debt --To create Social Security "savings accounts" --To create education and health-care trusts --To conquer Alzheimer's, diabetes, Lou Gehrig's disease, mental illness and HIV -To provide more money for nursing homes and hospitals...
...colleagues talk frankly with their classes about her illness, emphasizing that even though Mrs. Dillon now has a disability, she is the same person inside that she has always been. On a recent Monday, teacher Shelly Bancroft read David Adler's Lou Gehrig, the Luckiest Man to her fourth-graders, then led a group discussion. Katha Edwards' class, which had read E.B. White's The Trumpet of the Swan, about a bird without a voice, talked about Dillon's muteness. Said a student: "Mrs. Dillon is brave. She has a disease, but she works and works and never gives...