Word: stroke
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...point in high school, teammates shaved Cornish's head during a soccer-team initiation. In addition to the two-stroke caning he endured as a consequence, his science teacher made him sit in the hall daily until his hair grew back, which took three weeks. Cornish also "got" the aforementioned "jacks" from a cricket bat when he forgot his gym clothes. "I couldn't sit down for the whole day," he said...
...stroke rule also applies at Benoni High School in Johannesburg, South Africa, of which Michael Cornish '03 is an alum. "If you got five strokes you were allowed to go home for the day," he said. Administrators understood that your bleeding ass might need a rest. "Some of my friends used to come out of there bleeding. Afterwards we sat around laughing about it, but when you were going through it, it wasn't a joke...
...found that after three months of moderate weight training by people with normal and slightly elevated readings, systolic blood pressure (the bigger number) decreased 2% and diastolic levels dropped 4%. While these changes may not sound dramatic, past research confirms that even such modest reductions lower the risk for stroke and coronary heart disease...
DIED. GEORGE JACKSON, 42, Harlem native and former head of Motown Records, who co-produced a dozen films, including New Jack City (1991), and helped create Urban Box Office Network, a media company aimed at minorities; of a stroke; in New York City...
...Warren G. Harding often ridiculed Woodrow Wilson after his debilitating stroke. iLetis see him articulate his fourteen points without the use of the right side of his body,i quipped Warren...