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...condition usually gains public attention only after the death of an élite sportsman, like when Reggie Lewis of the Boston Celtics collapsed and died during basketball practice in 1993. However, all participants in regular athletic training - from recreational joggers to high school soccer players - are at increased risk. Almost all cases of SCD occur in athletes with hereditary or congenital cardiovascular diseases like hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a thickening of the heart. In 80% of cases, these diseases are asymptomatic and death occurs with little or no warning, almost always during or shortly after sport. Screening programs can identify heart abnormalities...
...says he became convinced of the need for ECG tests through his work as head of the screening program for British athletes, for which he screens players in soccer's Premier League and Britain's Lawn Tennis Association as well as amateur athletes on behalf of a British cardiac-risk charity. He hopes to publish the results of his work in the coming years. "It's very difficult to justify cost-effectiveness of ECG screening without using an emotive argument," he says. "We've screened 8,000 British athletes and have picked up a potentially fatal condition...
...specific figures. HMC, which has been criticized for its multi-million dollar compensation packages in the past, typically rewards managers for adding value and outperforming benchmarks. But it also withholds large portions of the bonuses over subsequent years in order to emphasize long-term growth and protect against excessive risk-taking. The report said that a small group of managers who outperformed markets would be receiving bonuses this year...
Mendillo said that the Company is now also considering remodeling its portfolio to encourage team collaboration, focus more on internal strengths, and reassess the endowment’s risk and the University’s needs. While overall risk management was “adequate” last year and helped avoid extreme volatility, Mendillo wrote that more is being done now to manage risk and that lessons have been learned, particularly that “the risk tolerance of the University needs to be an integral factor” when determining how the endowment is invested...
...little—if any—avail. And so the movie “The Burning Plain,” written and directed by the Mexican screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga, is the latest work to remind us that art and alchemy are not so different. At the risk of seeming to gush, no description will do the film justice. In both script and direction, Arriaga reaches for many familiar ingredients. But the result this time is different. You’ll recognize the Arriaga style from his previous films “Babel...