Word: stroke
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Though the Harvard men’s golf team entered yesterday’s second round of the Yale Spring Opener riding atop the leaderboard with a two-stroke lead, the Crimson’s Day 2 team score of 312 left the team with a frustrating sixth-place finish for the weekend. After Day 1, sophomore Michael Shore led all scorers with a two-under par 68, thanks to two front-nine birdies. Though Shore was the only player in the field to break 70, freshmen Danny Mayer and Greg Shuman carded 72 and 73, respectively, to finish...
...seemed almost too easy--and it was. In 2002 the quick pharmaceutical fix was all but snatched away when a large government study found that women taking hormones actually increased their odds of heart disease and that they put themselves at greater risk of breast cancer, stroke and blood clots. Women suffering with serious menopausal symptoms would simply have to balance the dangers and the benefits of the hormone treatments...
Reassuring--or at least illuminating--as all these findings are, hormone therapy is still a gamble. Even in women taking the treatment who were less than 10 years from the onset of menopause, there was a 77% higher risk of stroke and a 19% higher risk of breast cancer. That's why doctors urge those who take hormones to have their blood pressure checked and get regular mammograms. Aging may indeed never be easy, but once in a while it at least gets a little less confusing...
...ball ended exactly at the stroke of midnight for the Harvard women’s basketball team...
...time leading scorer. When Harvard learned that it had drawn the Terrapins as its first-round opponent, Delaney-Smith couldn’t help dwelling on what might have been—four years of Doron in a Crimson uniform, her senior leadership and silky smooth shooting stroke leading a talented group of underclassmen into postseason play.“We recruited Shay Doron heavily,” Delaney-Smith said last Monday after the NCAA Selection Show. “She’s really a great player—very athletic and tough as nails...