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...trouble finding my stroke," Meringoff said. "I was very disappointed in myself...
...oldest old are healthier than the merely old in several respects. Heart disease and stroke, for instance, have their greatest im-pact in the 50s through 80s for men and about 10 years later for women. Those who make it past the danger zones are less apt to be stricken at all. Similarly, Alzheimer's disease usually picks off its victims by the mid-80s. Perls found that men in their 90s outperformed octogenarians in tests of mental function...
DIED. MICHAEL GAZZO, 71, actor, playwright and screenwriter; of complications from a stroke; in Los Angeles. Gazzo's A Hatful of Rain was a mid-'50s stage hit that depicted a drug-addicted Korean War veteran with sympathy and, for its time, compelling realism. The work enjoyed a second life as a praised film in 1957. Gazzo's screenplays included the Elvis Presley vehicle King Creole. Gazzo also made his mark in front of the cameras, portraying a succession of screen heavies and winning an Oscar nomination in 1974 for his appearance as the turncoat mobster Frank Pentangeli...
Randomization looks like an attractive solution to self-segregation because it is easy. It would be nice if a complex social problem could be resolved with one clean stroke. But things are much more complicated, and it will take more than the magic bullet of randomization to accomplish Jewett's goals...
President Clinton honored former Sen. William Fulbright as a passionate political fighter, tempered by reason, who "changed our country and our world forever and for the better." Clinton eulogized Fulbright at a Washington National Cathedral memorial service for the former Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman, who died of a stroke at 89 last week. "In the work he did, the words he spoke and the life he lived, Bill Fulbright stood against the 20th century's most destructive forces and fought to advance its brightest hopes," said Clinton...