Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...already knew that the medication could lead to a potentially fatal lung condition known as primary pulmonary hypertension. But this problem seemed to affect only a small minority of users, and morbid obesity carries significant risks of its own: heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure and stroke. On balance, the benefits seemed to outweigh the risks...
...tide. If we fail, we could cross that 21st century bridge into a land like Brazil (1985), Terry Gilliam's vastly incredible, exquisitely surreal romp through a near future in which bureaucracy is lord and master. Where if you don't have the proper stamp on your 27 B stroke six, soon enough Central Services is tearing up your ducts, the Central Collective Storehouse computer has got you down as deleted, and your wife's screaming "what have you done with his body...
...obese, not for people looking to fit into a smaller bathing suit. FDA approved Redux with just such a caveat, and when limited to these patients, the drugs may still make sense--despite the risks--because morbid obesity carries its own dangers, including heart disease, diabetes and stroke. Too often, however, Redux and fen-phen were peddled to all comers, almost like candy. The current backlash, says Levine, is a "roller coaster that never should have happened...
...That evening she danced with John Travolta," says Brown. "And she danced with the President. At the stroke of midnight they all disappeared. That night, after she left the White House, she went to St. Alban's School and got in her laps at the swimming pool. The buzz was the development officer was going to bottle the water and sell it. I teased her the next day: 'What do you do to get the chlorine smell out of your hair?' She looked at me with wide, unbelieving eyes. 'Haven't you heard of shampoo...
Taking over for Costin Scalise will be Stephanie Wriede '92, who has served under Costin Scalise as an assistant for the past two years. Wriede made her mark as an undergraduate as she was a two-time All-American who still holds the school record in the 200 breast-stroke...