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...missed diagnosis understandably raised concerns about how doctors go about detecting and treating a stroke. Even for specialists this can be a tricky business, as there are two major groups of strokes and each requires different tests and treatments. In a hemorrhagic stroke, a blood vessel bursts and causes bleeding in the brain, which can be detected immediately by a C.T. or MRI scan. In the other, major family of strokes, ischemic, a clot obstructs the flow of blood, starving and killing brain tissue beyond the blockage. This kind of stroke, which Ford suffered in the balance center...
...Alzheimer's disease--a sticky snippet of protein known as beta amyloid. A controversial yet compelling hypothesis--long championed by Selkoe, among others--contends that excessive amounts of beta amyloid are toxic to neurons in the same way that too much cholesterol is toxic to the cells in blood-vessel walls...
...Russian ship, the Kruzenshtern, was largest vessel of the entire procession. A behemoth at 376 feet, the Kruzenshtern is the second-longest tall ship in the world...
Turkey was a different story, though. Unlike much of the Mediterranean in the summertime, where tourists are packed on beaches like sardines, Turkey was breathtakingly serene and surprisingly unadulterated. We lived for a week on the 75-foot sailing vessel Acanthus, navigating the incredibly calm, warm, clear waters of the Turkish coast. The sea in this region is dotted with tiny, mountainous islands covered with nothing but trees, rocks and, occasionally, goats. There are no giant hotels spoiling the landscape, and boats are certainly the preferred mode of transportation--most of the places we visited could be reached only...
...Fangmeier because of his impressive, all-digital work on Twister. Still, there were no guarantees; while water has been digitally drawn before (notably in Titanic and Waterworld), The Perfect Storm would require a level of simulation that had never been attempted. On Warner Bros. soundstage No. 16, a shipping vessel doubling for the Andrea Gail was harbored in a large tank 22-ft. deep (the same tank where Spencer Tracy sailed in The Old Man and the Sea 42 years ago). In front of a blue screen, mounted on a gimbal, the Andrea Gail tossed and turned while the actors...