Word: stroke
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When she died last week at 71, just hours after suffering her third stroke in four years, Margaret's place in history was assured. She was the first Diana, a woman whose life was a constant struggle with the rules of royalty. Margaret was just 14 when she became infatuated with Royal Air Force Group Captain Peter Townsend. Then 29, Townsend was a hero of the Battle of Britain and an equerry to her father, King George VI. He was also a married man with two children. But a secret romance eventually developed between them. The world learned about...
...story "Walk, Don't Run," on the benefits of walking as exercise [STAYING HEALTHY, Jan. 21], we referred to a Harvard School of Public Health study that found "those who walked the most--20 hours or more per week" have a 40% decreased risk of a stroke caused by a clot. The correct figure is six hours or more...
Margaret Rose died on Saturday at the age of 71 after suffering a stroke - suspected to be her fourth in four years - that led to cardiac complications. In the early hours of the morning she was whisked from her home in London's Kensington Palace to King Edward VII Hospital. A few hours later, at 6:30 a.m., she died "peacefully in her sleep," according to a Buckingham Palace statement. Her two much-loved children, Viscount Linley and Lady Sarah Chatto, were at her bedside. As the Union flag flew at half - mast over Buckingham Palace for the first time...
Fashion is a fickle thing but it seems mass nudity will never go out of style. Twice a year at the stroke of midnight, Harvardians abandon their clothes to participate in Primal Scream. A bunch of Harvard students—who at any other moment would have been clad to the teeth and too cold to give you the time of day—run, jog and saunter around the Yard in their birthdays’ finest...
RECOVERING. MARGARET THATCHER, 76, first female British Prime Minister; from a minor stroke suffered in Portugal...