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...steady balance of nail-biting victories and thorough obliterations that propelled Harvard to the winner's circle. Early in the final round, No. 3 seed Carlin Wing found herself in a 2-0 hole to Samantha Lewins before finding her stroke and winning the final three games, including the last two by 9-2 margins. Ella Witcher also rebounded from an early deficit to score a four-game win over Mollie Anderson...
...Lion': Zhang Ziyi on acting, stardom and Richard Gere in this web-only exclusive interview ? 'It's Emotional and Dramatic': Michelle Yeoh is no stranger to action-packed films, but the going was tough in Ang Lee's surefire hit ? 'I Thought I Was Going to Have a Stroke': Exclusive Web-only interview with Crouching Tiger director Ang Lee ? 'Speaking Mandarin Was Like Speaking Shakespeare': Chow Yun-fat on martial arts, Hollywood and mastering another language...
...undergo bypass each year--would experience bouts of mental fogginess after surgery? Most surgeons assumed these effects were temporary, since they usually disappeared a few weeks or months after the operation--as they did in Rasmussen's case. Besides, doctors tended to focus on the more pressing bypass complications--stroke, for example, which occurs in 1% to 5% of cases and can lead to permanent disability or death...
...takes over the job of oxygenating the blood and pumping it through the body. Studies have shown that microscopic bubbles of air or tiny bits of fat and plaque are often loosed into the bloodstream in the process. Even if they are too small to trigger a full-scale stroke, they may cause minor damage in the cerebral tissue...
...true that osteoporosis strikes women with much greater frequency than men--in some studies as much as four to six times as often. But that's no reason to brush it off as "their" disease. It's a mere stroke of gender luck that men's bones tend to grow larger, stronger and denser. Also paying dividends are those sports that boys (and, increasingly, girls) play as children--running up and down basketball courts, soccer fields and baseball diamonds. As it happens, physical activity is one of the more important ways to increase bone density and protect bone health...