Word: parkinsonism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dublin, Sam was first in his class. He studied in Paris and discovered as strong a love for the city as he had a hatred for the small-mindedness of old Eire. Sam went home thereafter only to see his family, especially his mother May, whose lingering death from Parkinson's disease touched him as he stared into her pained eyes. "These are the first eyes I think I truly see," he wrote to a friend, in a letter cited in Knowlson's biography. "I do not need to see others; there is enough there to make one love...
...ramp and passed the torch to a large man emerging from the shadows. As Cassius Clay, he had won the light-heavyweight gold medal in Rome, and as Muhammad Ali, he became the most famous athlete in the world. But a lifetime of blows has left him with Parkinson's syndrome and robbed him of his quick wit and physical skills. So when Ali bravely took the torch and, with a trembling arm, lit the wick, there was hardly a dry eye in the house. The fire then traveled up a guy wire to the cauldron atop Olympic Stadium...
Exactly how deeply the Rotarians felt became clear last June, when Franklin received an urgent phone call from Toronto. Despite his Parkinson's and other ailments, Billy had rarely missed a crusade. But on the day before he was scheduled to address 50,000 people in the Toronto SkyDome, he collapsed with a bleeding colon. From his hospital bed, Billy had an aide call Franklin with a plea to take over, and the son jumped on a plane, flew to Toronto and began frenzied preparation. Only the following morning did he learn that the crusade's local organizers, reportedly after...
BOSTON: A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine has found that people with parkinsonism -- symptoms associated with Parkinson's disease -- have twice the risk of death of those without the condition. Additionally, the authors conclude that nearly one in five people are afflicted by the condition. Previously, researchers believed the symptoms of parkinsonism, which include tremors, rigid movements, extreme slowness and shuffling gait, were benign manifestations of aging. But after studying 467 elderly Bostonians over nine years, scientists concluded the 159 with parkinsonism had a higher mortality rate. TIME's Janice Horowitz says the study points...
AILING. JANET RENO, 57, U.S. Attorney General; from Parkinson's disease; in Washington. The no-frills lawwoman revealed that the progressive muscle affliction was diagnosed last month, but stressed that the condition is being controlled by medication--and underscored the point by extending a rock-steady hand...