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...forever--this will be his third try--and an announcement was expected soon. But not last Friday night, and certainly not on David Letterman's Late Show. But why not? Richard Nixon said ``Sock it to me'' on Laugh-In in 1968, and later appraised his cameo as ``a stroke that helped people see I wasn't just that Tricky Dick, meanspirited son-of-a-bitch.'' So Dole took a page from the Nixon playbook, and for the same reason. If he feared that he's seen as stiff and sardonic, still perceived as a hatchet man by those...
...drug already used to treat heart attacks also reduces the damage caused by strokes, a European study shows. The medicine, TPA -- tissue plasminogen activator -- enabled stroke victims to live healthier lives, but did not reduce their death rate, according to researchers at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. "For stroke victims this news is important because just a little more ability goes a long way," saysTIME science writer Christine Gorman. "If you have 10 percent more ability in your left hand -- it's amazing how important that is to someone who has had a stroke and survived." Approximately...
...does not send us a cross heavier than we can bear,'' she once said. ``How you cope is the important thing.'' DIED. BAMBI, 31, female red deer, since 1989 the oldest of her species known to man, according to the Guinness Book of World Records; put down after a stroke; near Inverness, Scotland. John and Nancy Fraser, who cared for Bambi at the guesthouse they own, attributed her longevity--almost twice the life span of the average deer--to tender care and a diet of sugar beets, flaked maize and chocolate biscuits...
...over their brother's fiance, played, thankfully, by the lovely Julia Ormond, who gives the movie's only unaffected performance. At this point your thoughts may turn back to East of Eden, which was a gloss on the biblical tale of Cain and Abel. When the Colonel suffers a stroke, just as the patriarch in that film did, you may begin to entertain suspicions of rip-off--not to mention thoughts of escape from this tangle of portentous cross-references...
Advances on some fronts are marred by setbacks on others. Lower cholesterol levels and better emergency care have cut death rates from heart disease and stroke. But scourges thought conquered, such as tuberculosis and whooping cough, are showing new virulence as microbes outwit antibiotics. And we are almost powerless against new killers like the AIDS virus...