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...patient fares after a stroke depends on several factors, including how much of the brain has been affected; how soon and what sort of treatment is started (clot busters like TPA, or tissue plasminogen activator, should be administered within three hours for ischemic strokes but not for hemorrhagic strokes, lest they cause even more bleeding); how severe the symptoms are (paralysis is worse than simple weakness); and the patient's general health before the brain injury...
...belies a brilliantly reckless investigative style. Though she's a good six inches shorter than everyone else, Knapp fills out the personality of her great character and controls the stage. The audience hangs on her next action, and one hopes that no one from the BBC sees this performance lest Helen Miren should find herself...
...onstage," says a Bush adviser. Exception: JOHN McCAIN, whose Senate status is overshadowed by his celebrity. Besides, he'd bark if cut out. Not so lucky is former President GEORGE BUSH, who will, like all living G.O.P. ex-Presidents, be seen (in a video tribute) but not heard, lest he overshadow his son and remind voters of the past. BARBARA BUSH is another matter. Some advisers want the former First Lady to introduce her son on the final night...
...much for a warm-weather boost. More critically, the sharp rise in stocks looks suspiciously like a bear-trap rally, the kind that draws money from the sidelines as investors worry lest they miss out on a new bull market. Alas, these bounces, called suckers' rallies, prove short-lived and end in despair. Money drawn in near the top vanishes amid new lows on the major averages...
...with estrogen-replacement therapy. Also, keep in mind (remember?) that age takes a very normal toll on what psychologists call processing speed--the rapidity with which you can summon up the names of people and places. Our brains, in any case, have evolved with a certain built-in forgetfulness, lest they become hopelessly cluttered with useless information...