Word: parkinson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After Ali checked into the hospital to complete tests, doctors provided an answer: he was suffering from symptoms similar to those of Parkinson's disease-slurred speech, loss of coordination, reduced muscle strength and a persistent of fatigue. The doctors' report raised the inevitable questions about whether Ali's problems were a product of his profession, and triggered anew the debate over whether boxing should be banned...
...Americans, a walk through the Metropolitan's exhibit is a voyage of discovery, as astonishing as the sight of Maori art must have been in 1769, when Captain James Cook's Endeavour first touched New Zealand's shore. When the ship's artist, Sydney Parkinson, went inland, he marveled at the Maoris' "particular taste for carving...
...Parkinson noted, the means used to carve were primitive, but the effect was wondrously sophisticated. What he failed to divine was the reason: carving has been regarded as a sacred occupation since A.D. 900, when the Maoris first sailed in their canoes from other Polynesian islands to the place they called "the land of the long white cloud." To create the taonga whakairo, or decorated treasures prized by the Maoris, a sculptor was expected to combine artistic skill with such qualities as leadership, courage, religious learning and generosity. So revered was the artist that he worked surrounded by student acolytes...
...YORK -- Former work heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali was given test medications yesterday by doctors who said he was suffering from "Parkinsonism," or minor symptoms of Parkinson's disease...
...apparently did not have Parkinson's disease, a degenerative brain disease, "peruse," and experts believed his condition could be controlled by medicine, one of his doctors, Martin Ecker, said...