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...best saves I've ever seen her make," Kalil said. "The girl went to stroke and placed it to Anya's left and in the left-hand top corner, which is an excellent place to put it. Usually, strokes are given goals. Anya is a solid rock in our cage...
...over, right? Well...there is an enticing story line that could have the wily Araskog pulling off one last masterly stroke. Once ITT shareholders formally reject Hilton's bid next month, the ITT chairman could cancel the Starwood deal and continue his 18-year reign over the company. No one ever played Monopoly like this...
What makes the JAMA study particularly noteworthy is its rigorous design. The researchers started with 309 test subjects who either had Alzheimer's disease or had suffered a stroke. These were randomly divided into two groups. One was given 120 mg of ginkgo extract, the other a placebo. Neither the doctors nor their patients knew who had been given what until the end of the study. Meanwhile, researchers measured mental deterioration using three standardized tests. The improvements were modest--a few points, say, on a 70-point scale--and showed up in only two of the three tests, but because...
...reach a friend a few blocks away, I have to type 38 letters that mean nothing, a numeral, two underlines, an ampersand, a hyphen and two periods, all in a uniform, dotty sequence that will go nowhere if I add a single space or omit a stroke...
DIED. HAROLD ROTHWAX, 67, no-nonsense New York judge catapulted to prominence by the libel suit he brought against loose-mouthed radio talkster Don Imus; of complications from a stroke; in New York City. Though the public may have been fascinated by the flap with Imus, jurists were more intrigued by Rothwax's legal odyssey over the years from civil liberties lawyer to law-and-order judge. In an attention-catching 1996 book, Guilty: The Collapse of Criminal Justice, Rothwax argued that justice would be better served by clipping defendants' rights and giving police more leeway to seize evidence...