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Tamara Sobek-Rosnick, the Crimson’s penalty-stroke specialist, got off the bench and laced the game-winner at 60:01, downing Penn (2-2, 0-1 Ivy) in a defensive struggle on Saturday afternoon...
There were other ties, ones that stayed strong beneath the surface tension. Grief could be shared, understood. When he was 15, Bono's mother died from the effects of a stroke she suffered at his grandfather's funeral. Mullen lost his mother in a traffic accident in 1978. "The thing that has kept us going," he says now, "is the fact that we are friends. This whole band is based on our friendship. If it had originally been based on our music, we would have failed...
...other hand, there is a lot of evidence that lowering cholesterol levels in those patients with moderate arterial blockage greatly reduces the risk of suffering a heart attack or stroke. So a growing number of cardiologists are using the new cardiac scans to determine which of their otherwise asymptomatic patients need more intense medical treatment with statins and other drugs. "It's the perfect setup," says Dr. Christopher Cannon, a cardiologist at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. "You don't want to wait until you've had a heart attack to manage your cholesterol...
Here's some truth: since her surprise win at Wimbledon 14 months ago, Sharapova has aced the pundits who thought she would be a one-stroke wonder, mixing a rare brand of off-court glam and on-court grit to earn the world's top spot. Remember, we have heard a story like this before. A beautiful Russian prodigy, reared at a Florida tennis factory, splashes onto the scene--and claims more magazine covers than she does trophies. But while Anna Kournikova treated tennis as if it were a pushy paparazzo, the game is Sharapova's Prince Charming...
AILING. CORETTA SCOTT KING, 78, widow of slain civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.; from a heart attack and stroke; in Atlanta. The stroke affected the right side of her body, impairing her speech and requiring physical therapy...