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...case last week, an apparently healthy British woman in her late 20s took a 20-hr. flight from Australia to London and collapsed at Heathrow Airport 10 minutes after arrival. She died within hours. An autopsy showed that she had developed deep venous thrombosis--a blood clot in her leg--that lodged in one of her lungs...
...years, doctors have warned passengers who travel long distances not to stay seated for the entire flight. A known risk factor for blood clots in the leg is remaining sedentary for long periods of time--three hours or more. One of the easiest ways to counteract this risk on an airplane is to get up occasionally for a couple of minutes and walk the length of the plane. If the flight attendants are in the middle of service, just stand next to your seat and do a series of toe raises--lift yourself up on your toes for a couple...
Another precaution is to drink adequate amounts of nonalcoholic fluids before and during the flight. Dehydration can affect certain factors in the blood, making it thicker and more likely to clot. Travelers should be alert for leg pain, swelling and feelings of heaviness. When in doubt, it never hurts to get up and stretch. But only after the captain has turned off the FASTEN SEAT BELTS SIGN...
...certain novelty arises when Carl's leg is shattered in an accident. The Navy wants him to retire. Instead he orders the leg amputated, thinking a prosthesis will be less of a handicap to him on duty. We may never have seen courage expressed in quite that way, but it's also an excuse to bring a sobered-up Billy back to help Carl prove to a review board that he can return to active service. This, naturally, he does, presumably with the thanks of a grateful nation...
...parent, you can relate to the shock Tifton parents felt when, without threats, leg shackles, the smashing of TVs or the withholding of video-game privileges, their children began reading books before, during and after school. "It got to where you had to say, 'No more books,'" says Lenell Lindsey, a second-grade teacher at Lastinger Elementary. "You had to say, 'There's more to school than reading books all the time...