Word: stroke
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...Heavier drinking, more than two to three drinks a day, increases the risk of death from other causes, such as breast and colon cancer, stroke, cirrhosis, accidents and suicide for women of all ages," Meir Stampfer, associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, said in an interview with the Harvard Gazette...
...single stroke, the gangs have fulfilled two of Governor James' dearest campaign promises: saving money (inmates, when chained, require fewer guards) and getting tough with criminals. Fortunately, today's crews do not have to wear the heavy ankle irons that used to cause "shackle poison" (the new, handcuff-like shackles are made of lighter metals). Nor, in theory, will the men have to endure the overwork, beatings and disease that led to death rates as high as 45% among "classic" chain gangs. Still, working on a '90s-style gang is no picnic: inmates will be toiling through 12-hour workdays...
...April's Ivy League championships, for instance, the Crimson and Big Green tied for second in team competition behind Princeton. Dartmouth's Brian Kim also took the top individual spot over Harvard junior Joel Radtke by just one stroke...
...masterly stroke even for the software industry's master strategist-or at least it seemed so at the time. When Bill Gates announced last October that Microsoft would buy Intuit -- maker of the popular "electronic-checkbook" program Quicken -- it looked as if the software giant would not only eliminate a meddlesome competitor but also gain an instant beachhead in the fast-growing field of electronic commerce. There were grumblings, of course, about antitrust, but hardly anyone seemed to think they would lead anywhere. After all, the Department of Justice's antitrust division had just wrapped up a four-year federal...
DIED. GUNTER GUILLAUME, 68, East German spy whose embarrassing infiltration of Willy Brandt's office forced the West German Chancellor's resignation in 1974; of a stroke; in Eggersdorf, Germany. Working his way up through the ranks of the Social Democratic Party, Guillaume became a personal aide to Brandt after he was elected in 1969; Guillaume's close relationship with Brandt allowed him unfettered access to secrets, a breach he exploited fully...