Word: stroke
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...recent selection of a new prime minister in Japan epitomized the way Japanese politics work. With little or no public input, party officials selected Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) officer Yoshiro Mori to replace former prime minister Keizo Obuchi, who suffered a stroke. In back-room negotiations based mostly on who would most obediently and loyally serve the LDP's interests, Mori emerged with the coveted title in hand. Unfortunately, his selection embodied the flawed modus operandi of the LDP and the Japanese political system in general...
Like most Americans, Peggy Garves, 49, of Albuquerque, N.M., has trouble getting more than a few minutes of her doctor's attention. So, when her 76-year-old mother suffered a stroke last year, Garves consulted the Internet, surfing medical sites for information about treatment and rehabilitation...
...researchers report that it may be more strongly linked to heart attacks than cholesterol. A study of 28,000 healthy women found that those with high blood levels of hs-CRP (as your doctor calls it) are 4 1/2 times as likely to suffer a heart attack or stroke even if their cholesterol count is normal. The test for hs-CRP is inexpensive and has been approved for use since late last year...
...stroke that has left Japan's Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi fighting for his life is bad news for those studying his country's vital signs. The Japanese cabinet resigned en masse Tuesday, paving the way for the election of a new leader. But that may not be a simple matter in a ruling party divided on issues ranging from the pace of banking reform to personality differences. "Obuchi was the one leader able to unite the different factions of the ruling party," says TIME Tokyo bureau chief Tim Larimer. "Those who had been complaining that Obuchi's government had been...
...Napoleon was only 29 when he launched the invasion. A nasty, bourgeois knockoff of Alexander, the little Corsican hoped to conquer Egypt in a quick stroke. Why, exactly? Well, um.... to "liberate" it! Then he would proceed in triumph to Paris, depose the Directorate, take over France, and get on with ingesting the rest of the world. Napoleon was full of ideas...