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Gabriele Axthelm's sister was 49 and single when she had a stroke two years ago. Now paralyzed with permanent brain damage, she is in a nursing home that costs $4,600 a month. "We had to sell her house right away," says Axthelm. "We couldn't even rent it in case she got better." Alzheimer's has put her father in a care facility, and her mother, 80, lives in a retirement center. "They put away money for years," says Axthelm. "They are now living off their savings...
More than a generation ago, psychiatrist Robert Spitzer helped millions of Americans get instantly well. In 1973 Spitzer, a professor at Columbia University, led the charge to have homosexuality removed from diagnostic manuals as a mental disorder. In a stroke, a segment of the population once considered sexually deviant was declared mentally sound...
...knew we could win if we rowed as well as we have been,” said stroke-seat Kip McDaniel...
Coxswain Cristin Chinn, stroke Andrew Serke, John-Neil Thompson, Alex Chastain-Chapman, Jeremy King, Jordan Sagalowsky, Tyler Winklevoss, Justin Puleo and Sam Bryson comprised the second boat, which also took first-place in its event...
With one swift stroke, however, that could change. Free Red Sox tickets could go along way towards healing rifts with the Cambridge City Council. A luxury box seat in the new stadium would probably silence Ted Kennedy’s attacks about the living wage...