Word: stroke
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...Harvard Yearbook editors for the Class of 1950 edition described it as a "stroke of genius...
...vice president is never more important than at the instant of being chosen, because the choice tells you so much about the person who does the picking. When the doors are closed, George W. Bush doesn't have to listen to advice or stroke Republican egos; he can say what he pleases. John McCain? asked a friend. "Gimme a break," said Bush. Ohio Congressman John Kasich, Bush argued, isn't ready for the job. Pro-choice Pennsylvanian Tom Ridge might cost him too many pro-life votes in states where a point or two will make the difference...
Scientists debate endlessly whether we will ever really understand the workings of the mind - and every once in a while they're given reason to hope. The latest source of optimism is a study published in Friday's issue of Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association, which shows for the first time that a new type of rehabilitation may help stroke victims regain nearly full use of their paralyzed limbs. The experimental therapy, employed by researchers at the University of Alabama and the Friedrich Schiller University in Germany, involves immobilizing the good arm of a stroke victim and forcing...
...Christine Gorman. As our understanding of the brain becomes more sophisticated, Gorman explains, we get further from the erroneous idea that the brain is static, or fixed. "Now we know that tasks like learning a language or playing a new instrument change the brain," Gorman says. And although the stroke therapy remains experimental, it offers renewed hope for even more dramatic and practical discoveries down the road...
...this point, it?s pretty clear that the side effects of smoking are all pretty awful. But if the well-publicized threat of lung cancer, emphysema, heart disease or stroke isn?t enough to keep you from lighting up, maybe the idea of walking around without any teeth will do the trick. According to a study released Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cigarette smoke is a major contributor to the development of gum disease and subsequent tooth loss. In fact, smokers who puff away on a pack a day are six times more likely than nonsmokers...