Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...does not send us a cross heavier than we can bear,'' she once said. ``How you cope is the important thing.'' DIED. BAMBI, 31, female red deer, since 1989 the oldest of her species known to man, according to the Guinness Book of World Records; put down after a stroke; near Inverness, Scotland. John and Nancy Fraser, who cared for Bambi at the guesthouse they own, attributed her longevity--almost twice the life span of the average deer--to tender care and a diet of sugar beets, flaked maize and chocolate biscuits...
Advances on some fronts are marred by setbacks on others. Lower cholesterol levels and better emergency care have cut death rates from heart disease and stroke. But scourges thought conquered, such as tuberculosis and whooping cough, are showing new virulence as microbes outwit antibiotics. And we are almost powerless against new killers like the AIDS virus...
Unfortunately, fundamentalism can't be quelled in one powerful stroke. Fundamentalism had been simmering along the Bible belt for years; it slowly came into vogue all over the nation after the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision...
...over their brother's fiancee, played, thankfully, by the lovely Julia Ormond, who gives the movie's only unaffected performance. At this point your thoughts may turn back to East of Eden, which was a gloss on the biblical tale of Cain and Abel. When the Colonel suffers a stroke, just as the patriarch in that film did, you may begin to entertain suspicions of ripoff -- not to mention thoughts of escape from this tangle of portentous cross-references...
...Jokhar Dudayev, decked out in camouflage fatigues, held a press conference on the southern outskirts of Grozny to call for a halt to the fighting. There was no military solution to the crisis, he said, and peace could be agreed on "in a day, in an hour, at the stroke of a pen." But Dudayev, a former Soviet air force general, waffled when asked if he would drop his demand for independence and settle for autonomy inside the Russian Federation. First put out the fire, he advised, then decide how to rebuild the house. His plea seemed more a public...