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...year-old summer. Though she is much brighter than friends and cousins; they are maturing faster than she; her pregnant mother dallies with an old friend; her grandfather orders her parents to move into a bigger house he has acquired for them and then has a serious stroke...
Abedi, who left B.C.C.I. last year after a stroke that followed a 1988 heart transplant, built his business on careful attention to the needs of top-drawer customers. In the bank's early days, B.C.C.I. officials in London could be roused in the middle of the night to make good on visiting sheiks' gambling losses. Abedi cultivated the friendship of former Pakistani President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq and other Third World leaders. "He was a collector of people," says a Pakistani journalist who has followed Abedi. "He used Zia as a calling card...
...series pieces (a number of diptychs and one triptych) are characterized by an even field of brush strokes, heavy layering of paint and the lack of focal point. In a lesser artist these techniques would seem hackneyed and dull. But Bush's individual brush stroke and dynamic use of color eliminate the potential problem. For example, Untitled I shows a spectrum of vibrant colors painted in brisk, assertive strokes which cover two canvases. The resulting piece has neither a central form nor dominant color. Instead the interplay of colors and the rich texture spread equally over the work, leading...
Consider the case of Eileen Carlton, 65, of Danvers, Mass., who had a stroke five years ago and lost almost all ability to speak. Today, working with a visual-communications computer program designed by linguists at the Tufts University School of Medicine, Carlton uses symbols to construct sentences, so that she can communicate with her family and friends. "This has opened a whole new world to her," says her son Bill, 39. "Writing is too complicated for her, but she knows what she wants to say. So instead of spending the rest of her life playing charades, she uses symbols...
Finding such a drug wasn't easy. In fact, by Ingber's account, the discovery came as a stroke of luck...