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A "Shot to the Heart" Causes Cardiac Arrest
The technical name is Commotio cordis. It simply means a shot to the chest (or, literally from the Latin, "agitation of the heart"). Doctors ...
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National "Get Over It" Day
Letting go and moving on is a difficult, painful process. Bad relationships, bad decisions—we tend to revisit the moments when we were not-so-smart ...
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The Third Stage of Prayer—Giving Thanks
The Minnesota storyteller Kevin Kling was born with a birth defect—his left arm was disabled and much shorter than his right. Then, in his early ...
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'The Perfect Storm' Sometimes Hits Our Lives
When the Andrea Gail left Gloucester Harbor in Massachusetts on September 20, 1991, and headed into the North Atlantic, no one could have known that this ...
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Michael J. Fox Learns from Parkinson's Disease
The Jewish actor Michael J. Fox admits that he's struggled with the reality of his Parkinson's disease. Fox said, "Coping with the relentless ...
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‘Inefficient’ Does Not Mean ‘Waste of Time’
"One could say my Ph.D. in English and American literature has garnered me exactly nothing in terms of practical, worldly rewards …" ...
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Baseball Star Finds Christ through Suffering & Failure
Barry Zito was once known as one of the most dominating pitchers in Major League baseball. But in 2010 Zito had reached his lowest point: He was removed ...
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A Family Loses and Finds What Matters
An episode of This American Life (the popular NPR radio show) focused on a young woman named Sara who was sharing her family's public fall from grace. ...
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Children's Book Character Carries His "Sadness Shield"
We all seem to need a strategy for coping with the experience of grief. In the screen adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic children's book Where ...
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Michelangelo Labors to Make His Masterpiece—the Pieta
Michelangelo Buonarroti was born March 6, 1475, in Tuscany, Italy, and became, along with Leonardo da Vinci, the creative force behind the Italian Renaissance ...
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