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...been an uphill battle for the Brockton native ever since that first day as a freshman when he signed up for crew only to be told by his coach that he was too short. In crew, height is synonymous with a long stroke which is essential for speed, fluidity, and success...
...stay tuned, folks. With one bold stroke, Denver is bidding to put itself on the performing-arts map. When the multimillion-dollar Denver Center for the Performing Arts is complete, it will include the 2,700-seat concert hall just finished, a building containing three theaters and a cinema, and a huge parking garage, all of them adjacent to the existing auditorium and sports arena...
...among men and women in public life" by linking the troubles of Explorer Meriwether Lewis (who died in 1809, probably a suicide, in "a seedy tavern"), Major General Edwin A. Walker (arrested in a Dallas men's room in 1976 for public lewdness), and Pat Nixon ("stress-related stroke"). This is simply idle, and a spongy chapter relating the life of New York City's Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, who was neither an immigrant nor a name changer but is gathered into Morgan's embrace anyway, is not much better...
...other treatment or even to none at all. These very questions will now be examined in detail by an international team of neuroscientists led by Dr. H.J.M. Barnett of University Hospital, London, Ont., and financed by the U.S. National Institutes of Health. The team expects to study 1,000 stroke-prone patients in medical centers round the world. Half of them will receive the operation; the other half will get conventional therapy, which in some cases may be nothing more than aspirin. After five years of close observation, the survey should tell whether the operation is really as promising...
...after. She likes the challenge, the new strategy that a race brings. "Each race is so different," she says. The 200-yd. freestyle is almost an all-out sprint while in the 1650--a mile--"I count laps. After 500 yards, I just start thinking about keeping my stroke together. It begins to hurt so much...