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Well, yes and no. Two years ago, the NIH cut short the part of the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) study that looked at the long-term use of a combination treatment including estrogen and progestin. Reason: women in the study were showing increased risk of heart disease, stroke and breast cancer. Last week's announcement concerns estrogen alone, which, it turns out, slightly increases a woman's risk of stroke but not of heart disease or breast cancer...
...latter, Harvard led from the first stroke, sustaining Cromwell’s blistering initial pace in the backstroke for a 4.34-second victory...
...felt like Garnett was hooked,” Whitman said. “Balls that should have been strokes were being called lets because Malloy felt like Garnett was fishing. My opinion on that is that, yeah, when someone’s fishing, you don’t give them the benefit of the doubt, but whether you’re fishing or not, a stroke’s a stroke...
...second round of matches, freshman intercollegiate No. 7 Siddharth Suchde upset No. 6 Michael Ferreira at No. 2 in a hotly contested match that saw the competitors jaw with each other and complain about Oren’s stroke calls as Suchde dispatched the Trinity tri-captain...
DIED. RYSZARD KUKLINSKI, 73, Polish army colonel who was one of the CIA's most valuable spies during the cold war; after a stroke; in Tampa, Fla. He fought for his native country against the Nazis in World War II but became disenchanted in 1968 when he witnessed the Poles preparing to invade Czechoslovakia. From 1972 to '81, he provided some 35,000 pages of documents to the CIA, intelligence that an agency analyst said "virtually defined our knowledge" of the Warsaw Pact, and may have helped prevent a Soviet invasion of Poland...