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...caused primarily by a stroke that occurred 18 days after his implant surgery, leaving him with impaired speech, loss of short-term memory and weakness on his right side. Schroeder's recovery was further hampered in January by seizures (a common complication of strokes) and, in recent weeks, by fever that ranged as high as 105 degrees...
...remarks upset Schroeder's wife Margaret and enraged DeVries. The next day officials gave a rosier account of Schroeder's condition. They announced that his fever was subsiding and that he might be allowed to attend his son's wedding on March 16. They released photos showing Schroeder waving to Haydon. Schroeder was also treated to his first trip outdoors: a brief excursion to the hospital parking lot, from which he could glimpse the "transitional care" apartment building where he will live if he leaves the hospital. Two children rushed over to greet the famous patient. "It was like shaking...
...product or a new way of selling can quickly take over markets. Some of the most important breakthroughs in recent years in such fields as semiconductors and bioengineering have been made by smaller companies. At the same time, large firms risk losing prized employees who have caught the entrepreneurial fever. In 1975 Stephen Wozniak, then a 25-year-old designer at Hewlett-Packard, went to his boss with the idea of a microcomputer that could be hooked up to a home television set. The firm was not interested. Wozniak therefore started his own company with Steven Jobs, a friend working...
...apparent attempt to attract younger viewers, a lot of recent dancing has been included: break-dancing, Michael Jackson's "Beat It" video, material from Saturday Night Fever and Flashdance. A wicked suspicion lingers, however, that this material was included in the hope that, in this context, the old would be vindicated and he new would seem banal--for banal it certainly seems...
CREEPIEST EXIT. Apparently convinced that major league teams make a major league city, Indianapolis has been in a positive fever to become some place else. This is certainly understandable, but associating with Robert Irsay--he of the midnight moving vans--seems a curious way to move up in class. One gain: Irsay does not own the Baltimore Colts any more--just the Indianapolis Colts...