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Though he has to make up a 13-RBI deficit with five games to play, Pujols is one tear from becoming baseball’s first Triple Crown since Yaz won it in 1967 and the first in the NL since Ducky Medwick in 1937. He has proven he is capable of such a run —witness his 30-game hit streak this year, during which he hit .389. Simply put, Pujols is having one of the best offensive seasons in baseball history...
...might expect, if the tear occurs close to the heart, death can occur in minutes. Indeed, half of all patients who suffer this kind of aortic catastrophe die within 24 hours. "The key is to make the diagnosis," says Dr. Michael Deeb, a cardiac surgeon at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The pain of aortic dissection is often mistaken for that of a heart attack. But if the dissection is detected in time and there's no damage to other organs in the body, surgeons can successfully replace the torn section of aorta with a synthetic graft...
...however, decrease your risk of developing an aortic tear the same way you decrease your risk of heart disease--stop smoking, start exercising, and if you have either high blood pressure or diabetes, get it under control...
DIED. JOHN RITTER, 54, Emmy Award-winning actor who energized the racy (for the 1970s) hit ABC sitcom Three's Company as the goofy, bumbling Jack Tripper, a straight bachelor living platonically with two women; of a coronary-artery tear; in Burbank, Calif., after collapsing on the set of his latest hit show, 8 Simple Rules...for Dating My Teenage Daughter. The son of country-and-western singer and film star Tex Ritter, he worked frequently on TV (his other series included Hooperman and Hearts Afire) and had roles in the 1996 film Sling Blade and on Broadway...
...junior is out of action indefinitely with a tear in her patella tendon. It’s the first time Ogbechie has had a serious injury that has kept her out of competition since she started playing volleyball in the eighth grade...