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...Monday, the day before Harry Whittington suffered a minor heart attack from Dick Cheney?s birdshot, his big concern was not his own health but the image of Texas hunting left by the incident. Speaking in a raspy voice while sitting up in a chair at a Corpus Christi hospital, the 78-year-old lawyer told sheriff?s deputies from Kenedy County that no one had been drinking while hunting on the Armstrong Ranch last Saturday. They had been following all the rules-both Cheney and Whittington were dressed in blaze-orange vests and hats-and it was all just...
Learning about grades this late into the semester can be more than a minor inconvenience. Aside from toying with the mental health of more obsessive pupils, the grade delays may have jeopardized summer job prospects or grant applications—particularly for those students who had really planned to turn a new leaf in the fall 2005 semester. Moreover, late grades meant that in many cases, students could not use their course performance from last semester to guide shopping period decisions...
...spokesman for the Corpus Christi hospital that is caring for Harry Whittington, the 78-year old lawyer who was accidentally shot by the Vice President over the weekend, announced that Whittington had suffered "atrial fibrillation" (a particular type of irregular heart rhythm) and a "minor heart attack." Beyond that, few details were immediately available...
...Doctors at the Corpus Christi hospital will be watching to make sure Mr. Whittington does not develop ventricular fibrillation, a more serious type of irregular heartbeat that can be fatal within minutes. "It will stay a minor problem as long as the arrhythmia stays under control, the heart muscle hasn't suffered permanent damage, he doesn't have a further ongoing heart attack, and there's no fluid building up around the heart," says Dr. Soumi Eachempati, a trauma surgeon at New York Hospital in New York City. Assuming nothing else goes wrong, however, Whittington should be able...
...then defeated Sylvanie Spangenberg and Maria Zivicova, 8-6, in the No. 1 slot. Finally, after trailing 4-1, the team of Eva Wang and Stephanie Schnitter rallied to win seven straight games and give the Crimson the sweep in the doubles matches. O’Riain suffered a minor elbow injury during doubles, causing a last-minute change in the singles roster. However, Harvard seemed unaffected by the loss. “We had some adversity...We had to make a change in the singles line-up, and I’m proud of the way they mentally handled...