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...schoolteacher wife Jonda awake through much of Sunday night by tossing and turning in bed, McFarlane failed to respond when she tried to awaken him Monday morning. He stirred only when she shook him, and then appeared to be, in her words, "semilucid." Fearing that he had suffered a stroke, Jonda summoned a rescue squad. By the time it arrived she had discovered a note left by her husband, whose contents no one would divulge. Before an ambulance rushed him to nearby Bethesda Naval Hospital, the groggy McFarlane mumbled something to its crew about taking 25 to 30 Valium tranquilizer...
...Waters' case, however, this seemingly random stroke of misfortune soon began to look like a clue to a medical mystery. Shortly after his diagnosis, Waters learned that his former teammate Matt Hazeltine, a linebacker, had also been stricken with ALS. Last December Waters heard of a third ALS casualty from the 1964 squad -- Fullback Gary Lewis. Both Hazeltine and Lewis died earlier this winter. Waters was stunned. Was it mere coincidence? The disease typically strikes 1 in 50,000 Americans a year, yet it hit three teammates on a 55-man squad. Waters' doctor, Stanley Appel, head of neurology...
Some retirees may spend their years basking in the Florida sun, while other may fine-tune their golf stroke on the greens of California. But for members of Harvard's exclusive group of professors emeriti, retirement brings a life of new opportunities free from the burdens of teaching and headaches of administration...
...many exciting matches, Harvard's John Bernheimer fell behind 2-1 in games, but then unleashed an overpowering stroke and came back to win the next three games...
...paradoxes abound throughout the subject of surrogacy, a notion that speaks to the parental instinct and offends it in the same stroke. So that a father can enjoy a blood relation to his child, the surrogate mother is persuaded to treat the same bond as negotiable. For all the complexities, however, surrogacy is one of the simplest and most venerable of the new conception options. Even the Bible offers a parallel (in the Book of Genesis, naturally). When his wife proved unable to conceive, Abraham impregnated her handmaiden Hagar, who bore Ishmael. There were hard feelings in the aftermath...