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Talk of Koskovich's family brings out a variety of emotions from Clayton, the EMT. "That grandmother is going to have a stroke dealing with this," she says. "She's got so many kids she's raising in that house. There are four or five different families in there. Someone should track down the mother and make her take some responsibility." Mention of Tom's uncle Lenny Koskovich provokes a different response. "He's got a rap sheet that's as long as Scott Road. He is one bad man," says Clayton. The uncle is now serving his latest sentence...
Blair's comfortable upbringing means his politics aren't grounded in the old class resentments that animated Labour leaders before him. Yet he has known heartbreak and hardship. When Tony was only 11, his father, a law professor, suffered a serious stroke just as he was about to run for Parliament as a Conservative. With his father disabled, Blair received scholarship help to attend a tony prep school in Scotland. He did well enough there to pass the tough exams for Oxford in 1972, where he showed little interest in politics. He studied law, but is remembered most...
...Depressing news about depression. A 29-year study finds that CLINICALLY DEPRESSED adults may face a 50% increased risk of dying from stroke. Depression--which is treatable--may somehow alter blood-platelet activity, which in turn may trigger clot formation...
...someone associated with the game made an asinine remark about the sport's new phenom, Tiger Woods. Last week, Woods won the PGA's Masters Tournament, setting records for being the youngest Masters winner in history, as well as winning with an 18-under-par score and a 12-stroke lead. However, Woods' unofficial record is being labeled the first black golfer to win a major tournament...
Earlier this month, an 86-year-old Japanese man named Tomoyuki Tanaka died of a stroke. He was none other than the creator of Godzilla, and his legacy is surviving beyond...