Word: stroke
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...around the office of the president. We look up to that office. When we want to make a point, we take over that office. But that office is empty and enigmatic. I have known Neil and he is truly strange. His speaking voice makes him sound inebriated or maybe stroke-ridden. He fidgets with his socks constantly. And as I have said, he is at once overwhelmingly genuine and stridently superficial and distant...
...turn out to be nice. Seven months later, at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve, he proposed. "I wanted to ask her parents before. We were at a party at her parents' friends' house. But I couldn't get them alone to talk. So I pulled them into the bathroom and asked them. Her brother was a little suspicious. To make it a little less suspicious, we came...
...M.I.T. whizzes are working on it, though, developing a wearable known as the MIThril System. DeVaul says it will some day work as a "mental prosthesis" for people with memory and recognition difficulties, like those who have suffered a stroke or are in the early stages of dementia. "For a product to be viable in the marketplace, it has to have some sort of specific benefit to humanity," says Schwartz...
Piscitello became the first Radcliffe competitor to take part in four straight NCAA Championships while freshman stroke Caryn Davies became Radcliffe’s second freshman to row in the varsity boat at NCAAs...
...other day was Elco's cheapest picnic model (well, cheap is relative, it costs $30,000 - think of it as a stripped-down SUV), but I drooled over that one as well - its elegance of design and motion through the water. More and more American lakes are banning two-stroke engines and trying to quiet themselves down, although the Theory of Negative Compensations is otherwise hard at work on the nation's waterways. Unless we are lobstermen or whalers, we set out in boats in order to refresh ourselves in another dimension. The charm of the electric boat is that...