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...After a bunch of choir stuff, principal Fred Dreier gave a speech. I heard phrases like "lived through Hiroshima," "suffered a stroke" and "Jesus Christ, Buddha and Thomas Jefferson," the last of which, sadly, was not the setup to a joke. I am not sure what his speech was about since I was busy crossing out paragraphs from my speech. Then the ESPN guy talked about a "mentally challenged" kid in his high school who had taught him something about something. Again I was busy crossing...
...Who’s to say that one boat is better than another?” Butt mused. “To say that it’s better by two seconds is to say that it’s better by 1/100 second per stroke. And how can you determine 1/100 per stroke? The oarsmen felt comfortable in the King and that’s why we used...
...pope was able to turn animosity against the Vatican into a more positive feeling by apologizing for the sacking of Constantinople. But the difficult relations between Catholics and the Orthodox in the Ukraine are much more recent and more complex. They won't easily be ameliorated in a rhetorical stroke...
DIED. JOEY MAXIM, 79, light-heavyweight champion who defended his world title against Sugar Ray Robinson in 1952; of complications from a stroke; in West Palm Beach, Fla. Maxim faced Robinson on June 25 at Yankee Stadium in 103[degrees]F weather. Robinson, heralded as the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time, was well ahead with the judges but keeled over from the heat after the 13th round, giving Maxim a technical knockout...
...needed another reason to exercise, eat well and quit smoking, new research shows that people with high levels of HDL--the "good" cholesterol that can be increased by living right, drinking moderately, perhaps even taking prescription drugs--have a 47% reduced risk of the most common kind of stroke. About 600,000 strokes are suffered in the U.S. each year, making it the country's third leading cause of death...