Word: stroke
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This isn’t purely a matter of acting, either. At the Lyttelton, Tim Hatley’s set design was a stroke of genius. Filling the enormous stage with crates of various sizes, surrounding them with gray windows and walls that rose to the sky in a cruel hybrid of prison and cathedral aesthetics and topping it all with a series of candle chandeliers which could retreat to the heights of the theater or lower to ground level singly or in battalions, Hatley effectively literalized the boxed-in nature of Hamlet’s privileged world...
...York Times, whose passionate defense of human rights and the environment and early opposition to the war in Vietnam led to his dismissal as editor of the editorial page by his cousin the publisher but helped to establish the Times's liberal voice; on April 5, following a stroke last month; in Manhattan...
...researchers have shown that low doses of the drug may also help prevent clogged arteries. In a study of 800 adults, the blockers cut by 40% the rate at which vital arteries leading to the brain, known as the carotid arteries, built up plaque. Bonus: unclogged carotids may reduce stroke risk...
...Crimson opened the half positively with a goal from sophomore Katie Shaughnessy just 1:06 into the game. But Penn's goal 36 seconds later was the beginning of a six-goal scoring run that would be the fatal stroke against Harvard...
PREGNANT PAUSE The real No. 1 killer of pregnant women and new moms is not complications of childbirth--like hemorrhage or stroke--but...homicide. Murder, while still rare, occurs twice as often among those pregnant or recently pregnant, compared with other women of the same age. Researchers have no explanation, but the stress of pregnancy might increase the incidence of domestic violence...