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Distance ace Lovisa Gustafsson used her lightning-quick stroke tempo to jet to victories in the 1,000 and 500-freestyles...
...preempted a report scheduled to run in January by posting the findings on its web site. The report, based on a large-scale study by Canadian researchers, says the blood pressure-lowering drug Ramipril, which has been available in America since 1991, can lower the risk of heart attack, stroke or death by up to 25 percent among people diagnosed with heart disease...
...pediatrician before I became a neuroscientist. As a pediatrician, I was impressed by how much plasticity there really must be in the human brain. Pediatricians know that damage to the infant brain doesn't have the same outcome as damage to the adult brain. If a newborn has a stroke, even in the cortex [an area important to higher intellectual functions], he or she may sustain it and develop quite normally. The exact same injury would put an adult in a wheelchair. I wondered if the source of the brain's apparent plasticity was at the level of the single...
...month we'd been climbing and exploring in this corner of Antarctica. To visit such a wilderness in the waning moments of the 20th century struck us as a rare and fleeting privilege--an incredible stroke of good luck. Keeping this firmly in mind, we went to extraordinary lengths to minimize our impact on the place so that others would find it in a similarly pristine condition. When we departed, we even packed out our accumulated feces. I couldn't help thinking, however, that 100 years in the future, or even 50, a genuine wilderness experience will probably be hard...
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