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Lightweight eight stroke Amy Mecklenburg, also one of Radcliffe Crew's co-captains, was pleased with the team's performance...
...acupuncture in the U.S., however, will probably not rest on the quality of these experiments. If it's cheaper and less painful than going to the hospital, and if it gets results, Americans will use it. A Boston University researcher told the panel that the saving from just faster stroke rehabilitation and effective carpal-tunnel-syndrome treatment could cut the nation's annual medical bill by $11 billion. Such a saving is sure to catch the eye of HMOs and private health insurers. As Daniel Cherkin, a senior scientific investigator for a large HMO in Seattle, puts it, "Why something...
Even though they grew up playing stroke for stroke in the backyard, the two brothers had only played doubles once before and that was just recently at the U.S. Open Qualifier. But considering that Tom was a national quarterfinalist in doubles last year and James is considered one of the most talented freshmen in the country, it was no surprise that the pair entered the Rolex Championships with the No. 1 seed...
...poignant drama. Her great-grandfather H.H. Asquith was Prime Minister in the very years (1908-16) when so many of her films are set. Her father, a Harvard business school graduate, was a successful banker until, after an operation for a benign brain tumor, he suffered a paralyzing stroke. Helena has her looks from her mother, a psychotherapist of Franco-Spanish-Austro-Russian-Jewish ancestry. She lived with her parents until she was 30, when she bought an apartment a few minutes from their London home. "I'm not stretching the umbilical cord very...
...questions facing historians today. For many years this question was a no-brainer, as country and western music were thought to have been invented in the hills of Tennessee on June 13, 1834, at around a quarter to five. At this time, a Scotch-Irish immigrant realized in a stroke of backwoods genius that the banjo, up until then a farming implement used to discipline unruly chickens, could also be used to produce a twangy tune. (Historians had agreed that if, at that moment, the inventor could have known that his new invention would eventually lead to the song "Achy...