Word: stroke
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DIED. LUCIUS AMERSON, 60, one of the Deep South's first black sheriffs; of complications related to a stroke; in Tuskegee, Alabama. A pioneer in the resurgence of black participation in Southern civic life, Amerson served as Macon County sheriff from 1967 to 1987, well into the era of the New South...
...postpolio sufferers? Not much, unfortunately. There are only experimental treatments. A steroid called prednisone, usually used to treat immune-system diseases like multiple sclerosis, seems to help in postpolio as well, reducing fatigue and increasing endurance. And Dr. Marinos Dalakas at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke is experimenting with nerve growth factor, a protein that spurs the proliferation of nerve axons...
...Liston says allowing students to recovertheir fee with just the stroke of a pen on theirterm-bills is unfair...
...resolution is absolutely not designed as apunitive stroke against either Harvard's teachingfellows...or against the FAS departments, "hesaid...
This gut reaction to scripture is a deft stroke of literary subversion. It should not draw a Fundamentalist fatwa, though beef lobbyists and overweight- pride groups may grumble about the ceaseless bashing of carnivores and the amply proportioned. Theroux's main dodge is to see American puritanism in a frankly physical rather than spiritual light. Readers may take this sleight to heart or turn it into a belly laugh. Either way, the sorcerer and his apprentice encounter a nation with more than its share of knaves and hypocrites, including the Reverend Huber, a stock evangelist huckster, and Mr. Phyllis, cooing...