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...treatment is speed. As the American Stroke Association's slogan puts it: "Time lost is brain lost." The clot-busting drug TPA, for example, has to be delivered within a critical treatment window that closes about three hours after symptoms first appear. The most exciting research presented at the 29th International Stroke Conference in San Diego last week was advances aimed at opening that window a little wider. Among them...
...chemical in the saliva of blood-sucking bats that resists clotting and helps keep a victim's blood flowing. The same chemical can be used to dissolve clots, and researchers have developed a synthetic version of the compound that's so effective it can extend the time window for treatment in some patients from three hours to as many as nine...
...blackout. Stoic bafflement - a deadpan stare into the camera - is Geist?s usual game. But, when pressed, he can celebrate. For a wonderful ?CBS SM? show dedicated to New York City, Geist reported on Pale Male, the red tailed hawk who has lived for the past decade on a window ledge in a Central Park apartment house. Geist relaxed and let the story soar with its subject...
...this year, Miramax only had about three weeks between Cold Mountain’s December 25 release and the January 17 deadline for Oscar nomination ballots—not enough of a window for the studio’s post-holiday campaigning to make the needed impact on the psyches of Oscar voters...
...that they think might be fun to make in their parents' apartment. After the clueless mother and father depart on vacation, the kids shed their duds, their inhibitions and such political consciousness as they have. The demirevolution of the spring of 1968 begins to gather riotous force outside their windows while they play mainly degrading sexual games indoors. Eventually they find themselves eating garbage. Eventually Isabelle flirts with suicide. Eventually a revolutionary rock, tossed through their window, awakens the dreamers from their dream, and the French pair is last glimpsed throwing Molotov cocktails at the gendarmes. Eventually you begin...