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Then my father called to tell me that my other grandmother had a stroke and was unlikely to last much longer. Her Alzheimer’s had reached an advanced stage, and she had been steadily deteriorating for years. The woman who had maintained an unflappable sense of calm as she raised six sons in a four-room house no longer recognized her own sons or grandchildren when they sat next to her. The woman who had taught hundreds of elementary school students over a decades-long career was unable to read or form a coherent sentence...
...Fahd leaves grave challenges behind for his successor, King Abdullah, 81, though as royal advisors are anxious to point out, Abdullah has been the Kingdom's ruler in all but name since Fahd began his decade-long health decline with a stroke in 1995. Fears of a messy succession struggle subsided when immediately after announcing Fahd's death following a bout with pneumonia Monday morning, Saudi television also declared that Abdullah would become King and that he had named Prince Sultan, 77, the powerful head of the Saudi armed forces, who recently recovered from colon cancer, as his crown prince...
...being stalked by a fan who loves her a leetle too much. An adult thriller inspired by the giallo suspensers of Italian director Dario Argento, Perfect Blue deftly translates the live-action shock style into lurid-luscious anime visuals while mulling the notion that celebrity is a stroke of good luck punishable by death. Have creepy fun with Perfect Blue; then move on to Kon's Millennium Actress, another, gentler mix of suspense and movie lore. It's an anime tribute to live-action Japanese films, from delicate family dramas to the Godzilla epics of a devastated Tokyo...
...Many of Vanuatu's 83 islands are hard to reach and harder to get around, so it was a piece of astonishing luck that Teouma is only a short drive from Vanuatu's capital, Port Vila. It was another stroke of luck that the cemetery was discovered at all. After a bulldozer collecting soil for a prawn farm in 2003 turned up some pottery, the driver thought one of the shards pretty and took it home, where he showed his new curio to a friend. Thankfully for anyone interested in learning when and how the South Pacific was first settled...
Drugs called ACE inhibitors are so good they should be given away, says a University of Michigan study. If the meds were free for diabetics age 65 and older, there would be fewer cases of heart attack, stroke and kidney failure--and a big net saving for Medicare...