Word: stroke
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...rich hill-tribe culture. But there's another ubiquitous sight along the north's twisting mountain roads: the smoke-belching, gear-grinding, Eastern bloc motorcycle throwback that Vietnamese call con trau gia (the old buffalo). First imported from the Soviet Union in the 1960s, the Minsk's two-stroke engine and body have hardly changed over the years. Northern Vietnam has undeniably become Minsk country, and the old buffalo are used for everything, from personal transportation to hauling pigs, cows and chickens to hill-tribe markets...
...treat his hypertension, Raj will be seeing his doctor and will probably be placed on antihypertensive medication. I assured him this was a good thing because uncontrolled hypertension could lead to heart disease, stroke, kidney failure and even dementia...
DIED. KIM GALLAGHER, 38, who bested chronic illness to win two Olympic medals in the 800-m race; of a stroke, after battling cancer of the stomach and colon; in Philadelphia. She underwent surgery for ovarian cysts six months before her silver-medal win in Los Angeles in 1984. Her 1988 time in Seoul is still the third fastest by an American woman in that race...
...Texas to shoot. Before I myself realized that it was happening, my wife accused me of falling in love with 20-year-old actress Cybill Shepherd. Polly was right. As I was swept into an affair with Cybill, my mother called to tell me my father had had a stroke and was in a coma...
...continued to work for three years after his first stroke. Since that time, Margaret Rawls and other colleagues have continued to compile and edit his partially competed works...