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Widespread reports that retired strongman Ne Win had recently suffered a stroke fanned hopes that the military might finally yield. Yet when 700 students gathered at the University of Rangoon to press for Suu Kyi's release, hundreds of heavily armed troops surrounded the campus, arrested scores, and shut the universities...
...half of whom will be randomly assigned to take low doses of aspirin every other day for at least five years. Originally designed to see if aspirin can prevent heart disease in women as it does in men, the study will also look at rates of colon cancer, migraines, stroke and gum disease...
Until the results are in, doctors are not recommending that anyone go out and gulp aspirin for good health. The drug can have unpleasant and even dangerous side effects, including ringing in the ears and blurred vision, as well as stomach bleeding. A more serious problem is hemorrhagic stroke, caused not by a clot blocking the brain's blood vessels but by vessels that rupture. Moreover, prostaglandins appear to work in opposing pairs. The ones that promote clot formation, for example, are countered by partners that do the opposite. Too much aspirin can therefore cause the very problems that lower...
Wriede, who has already qualified for the Olympic trials in the 200 breast-stroke, broke the meet, pool and team records with her 2:15.39 time in the same event. More importantly the time was fast enough to qualify her for the NCAA meet in March. There are distinct advantages to making the cut this early in the season, as the necessary time dropped nearly two seconds off of last year's 2:18.00, narrowing the number of qualifiers...
Colgate Hockey Coach Terry Slater, the architect of one of the most competitive hockey programs in the nation, died yesterday morning in Syracuse, N.Y. four days after being hospitalized for a stroke...