| When a stroke strikes, minutes can be priceless
The amount of damage to the brain would determine whether a person had a slight facial droop but was able to function or required the round-the-clock care of a nursing home. "You just kind of crossed your fingers and hoped that their weakness and the result of their stroke wasn't that bad," said Vance McCollum, a doctor at Mercy Health Center. Strokes come in two varieties, ischemic and hemorrhagic. Ischemic strokes are the most common and are the result of a clot cutting off blood flow in the brain. Although the clots often come from the heart — heart disease is a risk factor — they can come from anywhere. Hemorrhagic stroke is caused by bleeding in the brain, much like an aneurysm. Morgan and others who treat stroke patients can recall stories of quick, near-perfect recoveries because of the current drugs and clot removal tools.
January 2006 - December 2006
There is no valid scientific reason for Europe to have banned biogenetically altered food crops from its markets, says Alan Caruba Spain embraces China: Add Spain to China's list of diplomatically conquered roster of allies, writes Frederick W. Stakelbeck Jr. Capote a marvelous achievement: Lady Liberty hasn't love a movie as much as she did Capote for a long time. Unfortunately the same cannot be said for the very dull The New World Fathers, sons, and senators: This year, says Vincent Fiore, family will mean a lot when it comes to deciding a few Senate races "Heads" bin Laden wins, (turning) tails, Bush loses: Nancy Salvato has to hand it to Osama bin Laden. His offer of a truce came at a perfect time for the enemies of the American-led war against terrorism Right and left and Roe v Wade: The right-to-life crowd may cheer the day that Roe v Wade is struck down, writes Lisa Fabrizio, but lovers of the American Constitution will probably be the happiest Storm arises over emergency school vouchers: In the wake of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, public money was made available to move students from destroyed public schools into private schools? A good thing? Not according to some, says Paul M.
College coders working with IBM's Project Zero
Students at North Carolina State University are learning to build business applications in the Web 2.0 mold using an IBM incubator project called Project Zero. Announced last year, Project Zero is a programming framework for rapidly building Web applications. Its pieces include a scripting runtime for Groovy and PHP (hypertext preprocessor), two hot dynamic languages, along with APIs (application programming interfaces) for creating REST (representational state transfer) Web services, user interfaces and mashups, according to IBM. It is available as a plug-in for the Eclipse integrated development environment, as well as in a version for developers who prefer to work from the command line. .
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Dining out? They’re all clean in Cleburne
Opinions will vary about the food at Cleburne's places to eat out, but they all passed their health inspections in 2007.Of the 203 eating establishments — restaurants and other public places that serve prepared food, such as schools and churches — inspected by the Cleburne Environmental Health Department last year, 18 received a perfect score. Score possibilities range from zero to 100, and none fell below 63 points, which is failing."We conduct inspections every week," said Theresa Richardson, health department director. "Everyone gets inspected at least annually. A lot we visit biannually. We always inspect the schools biannually."Restaurants receiving perfect scores were the Starbucks inside the Albertson's on Katherine P. Raines Boulevard, Burger Bar, Red Chew Chew BBQ & Grill and Mill Street Coffee.
Rather than sweating glycemic index, stick to the basics
If you pick up a box of Lean Cuisine Chicken Pomodoro in Australia, you'll find a small symbol on the label that lists the product's glycemic index in addition to the usual facts about calories, carbohydrates, fat, protein and sodium. About 150 other products carry the symbol, too. Developed nearly 30 years ago at the University of Toronto, the glycemic index, or GI, is becoming part of the nutritional landscape Down Under. And it's attracted attention in the U.S. and Canada, too. The GI tries to gauge how much your blood sugar is likely to rise after eating a particular food. The higher the number, the more likely your blood sugar will be elevated after eating – something people need to avoid. Foods with scores of 70 to 100 are considered high-glycemic; 55 and lower are low-glycemic.
Grant bides his time over selection
Avram Grant admits he is facing one of the toughest decisions of his managerial career ahead of Sunday's Carling Cup final against Tottenham at Wembley. Grant is agonising over whether to recall captain John Terry and midfielder Frank Lampard. Both players were absent when Chelsea clinched a place in the final and while Grant says it is not his intention to punish them for being injured, he accepts there is a case of rewarding those who got them to Wembley. "I think always about the next game," admitted Grant. "John and Frank were injured but I don't intend to punish any player that wants to play. They both wanted to play every game, even every training game, but they were injured. I am not going to punish them for that or because other players played very good." He added: "Rewarding players is not the main thing but I am thinking about that.
Obama gains broader appeal, new poll finds
It will be legally and morally catestrophic for the American society and its claim to democracy beyond its shores, if anything happens to Senator Obama. Protecting him will not be easy but neither will the rest of the world easily accepts US explanations. While non- American observers like me watch recent developments with facination and admire a new found courage found by US voters of all race and creed, we remain prayerful that the tempo sustains. One beautiful political card played by the O-Team and which will remain atop this weeks event, is how the Obama campaign team successfully provoked for the public to see, an easily ruffled Senator Clinton. That was a smart game. One wonders how she will cope with harpless thirdworld leaders on the loose, tamed diplomatic pugilist like Russias Mr.
Fires scorch forests but spare homes
Covering more than 2,000 acres, the fire was the largest of several in the region. Nearly 1,000 acres had burned in Bedford County, and another 1,700 acres of mostly national forest land were ablaze in Craig County. "It's so large, we have what I would call pockets of containment," Burch said of the Roanoke County fire. The fire, which began as two smaller blazes, stretches from Timberview Road, just north of the intersection of Interstates 81 and 581, to the Carvins Cove area. One fire was caused by downed power lines; the cause of the second remains under investigation. Other than scorched forestland, the most serious damage to date involves a Jeep that went up in flames. Authorities said the driver got impatient with fire trucks that blocked the road and tried to drive around them.
Salty snacks mean more sodas for kids
Kids who load up on salty meals and snacks get thirsty, and too often they turn to calorie-filled sodas. So maybe cutting back on the salt is a good way to cut the calories. That's the idea coming from a British study published Wednesday in an American Heart Association journal. Salt is "a hidden factor in the obesity epidemic," said Graham MacGregor, a co-author of the study by researchers at St. George's University of London. And researchers say all that salt isn't coming from the salt shaker: About 80 percent comes from manufactured food. "Most people think that sodium comes from the salt shaker. The salt shaker contributes less than 10 to 15 percent," said Dr. Myron Weinberger, a professor of medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine. "Fast foods, for example, are just loaded with sodium.
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