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...pulmonary vascular disorders." But these disorders, Dr. Goodwin told the Louisiana Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology, are extremely common. In their most dramatic and catastrophic form, they are called pulmonary embolisms, and they may be almost as common as the single heart attack that proves quickly fatal. Their mechanism is similar-a blood clot traveling through the veins, usually from a leg, blocks one of the great arteries carrying blood from the heart to the lungs-and their effects are just as deadly...
...Glory." Clearly, Billy's imagination has been spoon-fed and molded from childhood by radio, telly, and newsreels: it is, alack, the imagination of his whole generation--as trite and enfeebled as the bourgeois lives around him. Chained in Alger-like dreams of limitless possibility, Billy never learns this fatal secret...
Clarkson scored its winning goal last night at 4:21 of the fatal session, as Tom Hurley single-handedly stole the puck from four Crimson skaters at the Harvard blue line, and skated in alone to beat goalie Brandy Sweitzer cleanly...
...Roberto goes over the cliffe with the sports car. Bruno is tossed safely aside, just in the nick of time. As Bruno views Roberto's corpse, he is reminded of the value of friendship and human beings. And Roberto's death reminds us, since the playboy's life proved fatal to him, "above all, to thine own self be true." You know The Easy Life is a good film when this last scene seems subtle, powerful, and dramatic...
...Cornell hockey team dealt Harvard's Ivy League title hopes a possibly fatal blow last night, scoring twice in the first period and hanging on to beat the Crimson...