Word: stroke
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...being stalked by a fan who loves her a leetle too much. An adult thriller inspired by the giallo suspensers of Italian director Dario Argento, Perfect Blue deftly translates the live-action shock style into lurid-luscious anime visuals while mulling the notion that celebrity is a stroke of good luck punishable by death. Have creepy fun with Perfect Blue; then move on to Kon's Millennium Actress, another, gentler mix of suspense and movie lore. It's an anime tribute to live-action Japanese films, from delicate family dramas to the Godzilla epics of a devastated Tokyo...
...Many of Vanuatu's 83 islands are hard to reach and harder to get around, so it was a piece of astonishing luck that Teouma is only a short drive from Vanuatu's capital, Port Vila. It was another stroke of luck that the cemetery was discovered at all. After a bulldozer collecting soil for a prawn farm in 2003 turned up some pottery, the driver thought one of the shards pretty and took it home, where he showed his new curio to a friend. Thankfully for anyone interested in learning when and how the South Pacific was first settled...
Drugs called ACE inhibitors are so good they should be given away, says a University of Michigan study. If the meds were free for diabetics age 65 and older, there would be fewer cases of heart attack, stroke and kidney failure--and a big net saving for Medicare...
...Someone was telling me we were ahead after five strokes, so we had a blazing seven-stroke race,” six-seat Dave Stephens ’05joked afterwards...
...DIED. LUTHER VANDROSS, 54, winner of eight Grammy Awards whose heart-tugging ballads made him one of the most celebrated R. and B. singers of his generation; of complications arising from a massive stroke in 2003; in Edison, New Jersey. In 1981, after years backing such artists as David Bowie, Roberta Flack and Carly Simon, he released the first of 15 well-received solo albums, which included such R. and B. hits as Give Me the Reason, Here and Now and Love Won't Let Me Wait. But he longed for a chart-topping crossover, which he achieved...