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...skies, it is DVT that has most recently captured public attention. Sometimes referred to as economy-class syndrome, DVT can strike passengers in any section of an aircraft. In some victims the effect of the blood clots might be only a sharp stabbing pain and swelling in the lower leg. In others it might be much more serious - part of the clot may detach itself and travel through the bloodstream to the lungs, where it can cause a fatal obstruction. Last October, British traveler Emma Christofferson, 28, died shortly after flying home from Australia. Last month, a woman...
...Portugal. The dolphin tale was heartwarming, but should it have prevented us from hearing about these other issues? Just like hundreds of others across the country, network executives in West Palm Beach had to make a choice. Were they correct in deciding that a police officer with a leg wound was really more newsworthy than a vice president with heart problems...
...Dale had started out with nothing. In fact, when I met him in 1973, just about the only two things he had in place were his mustache and his ambition. At that time he was racing on dirt tracks in Concord, N.C., looking for a way out or a leg up and often feeling discouraged about his lack of opportunities. His father-in-law at the time, Robert Gee, built race cars, and I happened to turn to him after I wrecked mine at Daytona in 1973. I came to know Dale through Robert...
...evidence comes from the leg bone of a three-year-old child buried in a cemetery 70 miles north of Rome in the empire's waning days, circa A.D. 450. The remains were among some four dozen small skeletons--mostly of infants or stillbirths--excavated there in the early 1990s by University of Arizona archaeologist David Soren and colleagues. Because so many of the babies were preemies, and all seem to have been interred at about the same time, Soren suspected a malaria epidemic...
What sent chills down the spines of 20,000 fans in that arena was when Reed tested out his injured leg prior to tipoff. His warm-up routine that night is the only one I can remember that received actual play-by-play, as well as the rapt attention of the entire opposing team...