Word: sudden
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...team, led by Drs. Christine and Jonathan Seidman from Harvard, discovered the cause of Familial Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (FHC), which often leads to heart failure and, in some cases, sudden, unexpected death...
...administrative commotion surrounding Bok's resignation has led some to question how important the advisory committee will be. Harvard officials said last week that the six-member advisory committee has not met since Bok's sudden announcement in June...
Cardiomyopathy includes a number of diseases that cause thickening of heart's walls, which is the leading cause of sudden unexpected death among athletes. One of the most notable victims of the disease was Hank Gathers, a basketball player at Loyola/Marymount University who died suddenly during a game in March...
What accounts for this sudden sprouting of caution on the right? Partly it is a return to isolationist tendencies that go back to the earliest days of the Republic. In 1796 George Washington warned against the dangers of entangling alliances: "The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible." Over the centuries, the desire to retreat from a global role has ebbed and flowed, and in the 1930s Congress even passed neutrality laws in the hope of preventing the U.S. from...
...sense of exhaustion. Barthelme gets the conjugal entropy just right, but, by definition, he is at a dead end. His resolution is to spring an abrupt and wrenching ending better suited for a short story than a novel. It involves a car chase and could use a warning: sudden stops can cause whiplash...