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...Clinic staff at Narita International Airport gave her oxygen and rushed her to the nearby Red Cross Hospital. There Dr. Hiroshi Morio immediately diagnosed a pulmonary embolism: a blood clot that had lodged in her lungs, possibly as a result of deep vein thrombosis (DVT), a condition often prompted by prolonged periods of immobility. "It was easy to diagnose," says Morio. "She was in a critical condition." For seven days Ishii's family kept a bedside vigil, and she was eventually discharged after three weeks. Eight months later, the 57-year-old still takes daily doses of anticoagulants. Ishii knew...
...from ticket sales and other revenue. That caught the attention of stock market punters smarting from slumping share prices. When a similar online fund for Friends debuted in March, investors snapped up all shares in less than a minute. Friends might have been huge anyway - it has tapped a vein of nostalgia for a simpler era. But giving moviegoers a stake also helped. When the film flopped at Korea's version of the Academy Awards - not winning a single prize - fans swamped Internet movie sites, slamming the ceremony. It matters what these people think. "Netizens, the Internet generation, decide whether...
...Their names teem with a sort of secret Shakespearean life. I browse through field guides to wildflowers and weeds, and when I read them, I feel as if I have rediscovered a rich, hidden vein of the English language-a parallel universe populated by such vivid protagonists as Carrion Flower and Wild Bleeding Heart, as Vipers Bugloss and Crazyweed, as Hog Peanut, Corn Cockle, Tansy leaf Aster, Showy Orchis, Death Camas, and that damned elusive Scarlet Pimpernel...
...going in for the same procedure he had in March - a cardiac catheterization, for which doctors insert wires into a vein in his groin and thread them up into his heart. The wires are tipped with electrical sensors that give precise readings on the rhythm of the heart muscles "for the purpose of determining the vice president's risk of developing a persistent, abnormal heart rhythm," said Dr. Jonathan Samuel Reiner in a statement released by the White House...
...Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour," 1969: The brothers, already in jeopardy with CBS for their satirical barbs, lose their show after an allegedly blasphemous guest spot by David Steinberg. The vein in which Steinberg took the Lord's name was comic...