Word: stroke
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...bottom line, according to the authors: drinking 48 oz. of unfiltered coffee a day may carry a 10% increase in risk for heart attack or stroke. An incidental but equally important finding was that levels of vitamin B-6 decreased...
Biegluk also swam the breast stroke in the 400 medley relay, which he won along with juniors Michael Im and Jamey Waters and freshman Kyle Egan. The medley team of co-captain Ben Rosen, sophomore Ryan Egan and freshmen Mike Gentilucci and Dan Shevchik finished second...
...down version of Unix, the standard operating system used in large mainframe computers. Linux caught on fast with programmers: It was fast, efficient and stable, and best of all, it was extensively customizable, so that hackers could modify and rejigger it exactly the way they wanted to. Torvalds' real stroke of genius, though, was to give Linux away for free, and to make its code open to all, so that any hacker anywhere in the world could improve it, add to it, and, when necessary, fix its bugs. MORE...
...Vitamin E may not help the heart after all. In a double-blind trial of nearly 10,000 high-risk patients--who had already had a heart attack or stroke--400 IUs of vitamin E daily didn't work any better than a sugar pill in preventing a subsequent episode of heart trouble. Best advice: for now, count on aspirin and the other meds your doctor prescribes...
Sources: Good News--New England Journal of Medicine (1/6/00); The Lancet (12/11/99). Bad News--Environmental Science & Technology (2/1/00); Stroke (1/7/00...