Word: stroke
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...doctors, homocysteine is nothing new. As long ago as 1969, Harvard physician Kilmer McCully--now with the Veterans Administration Hospital in Providence, R.I.--was studying the unusual case of an eight-year-old boy who had died of a stroke. McCully found that the boy's bloodstream was fairly awash in excess homocysteine and that his arteries had the sclerotic look of an elderly...
DIED. MATE BOBAN, 57, chauvinistic Bosnian Croat leader who spearheaded the creation of the short-lived Croatian statelet of Herzeg-Bosna; of a stroke; in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1993 Boban waged a vicious campaign against Muslims in his drive for an ethnically pure Croatian republic...
...golden retriever: "And now he's dead./ And there are nights when I think I feel him/ Climb upon our bed and lie between us,/ And I pat his head./ And there are nights when I think/ I feel that stare/ And I reach out my hand to stroke his hair,/ But he's not there./ Oh, how I wish that wasn't so,/ I'll always love a dog named Beau...
...poem lacked the gift of making grief palpable, as Stewart had done with such searing poignancy in Vertigo. But the feelings were just as direct, honorable, crushing. Imagine his desolation when, in 1994, Gloria died, at 75, of lung cancer. With no hand to hold, no hair to stroke, no lovely, comforting figure to share his bed, Stewart was bereft and, for all his loving children and friends, alone. He stopped his ritual of going to the office to answer his fan mail. Says Lord Richard Attenborough, who appeared with Stewart in The Flight of the Phoenix (1966): "He said...
...Sources: Stroke; New England Journal of Medicine...