Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
'Lou Gehrig's disease' to be listed as service-connected, U.S. says The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to provide full disability payments for Lou Gehrig's disease, tacitly acknowledging for the first time a generalized link between the fatal neurological disorder and military service.
Tech Startups 3.0 (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
"Randy Pausch, 47, Dies; Randy Pausch, the professor whose “last lecture” made him a Lou-Gehrig-like symbol of the beauty and briefness of life, died Friday at his home in Chesapeake, Va. He was 47, and had lived five months longer than the six months a doctor gave him as an upside limit last August. Skip to next paragraph Enlarge This Image Kaylin Bowers/Daily Progress, via Associated Press...
New York Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
Dr. Pausch was the Carnegie Mellon University professor whose “last lecture” made him a Lou-Gehrig-like symbol of the beauty and briefness of life.
Baseball Prospectus Radio Podcast (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
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nickbohle.de (Free subscription) | yesterday
Randy Pausch, the professor whose last lecture made him a Lou-Gehrig-like symbol of the beauty and briefness of life, died Friday at his home in Chesapeake, Va. He was 47, and had lived five months longer than the six months a doctor gave him as an upside limit last August. NYTimes.com. © 2008. nickbohle.de. Alle Rechte vorbehalten. [...]
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
... The only modern players with a higher lifetime OBP than Bonds are Ted Williams, Babe Ruth, and Lou Gehrig. Not bad company. Even at age 42 Bonds is likely to get on base in at least one third of his at bats. What manager would not want a batter who is almost guaranteed to get on base that much, and on top of that, hit many home runs? But of course Barry Bonds has some liabilities. Some are...
Paul Soglin: Waxing America (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
... last season, he managed to demonstrate an excessive amount of mortality. There are exceptions. Lou Gehrig comes to mind in the classic, resonating moment, where he confronted death before 45,000 fans in a live setting of Yankee Stadium that evolved into a poignant moment for millions of viewers over he years. The drama is not in the color fo the uniform that Favre will don in the next month,...
MLB (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
On Monday, Philadelphia baseball fans will stream through Citizens Bank Park to meet Phillies players, broadcasters, coaches and the Phanatic as part of the team's annual Phillies Phestival, created to strike out ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease.
HHMI News (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
... for drugs to treat diseases that destroy motor neurons, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease. As a vertebrate organism develops, the long, outstretched processes of motor neurons wend their way from the spinal column to wire up every muscle in the body. In mammals, many hundreds of different types of motor neurons are needed to control the variety of muscle types...
lalate news (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
The offer for Bartman is to show up at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Ill., at 1 p.m. on July 31, establish his identity, and sign a photograph of the moment. The photo will then be auctioned off for a Chicago-based charity.“No one in sports memorabilia history has ever been paid $25,000 to sign one autograph — not Michael Jordan, Muhammad Ali, Joe DiMaggio, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig,...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
... paid $25,000 to sign one autograph -- not Michael Jordan, Muhammad Ali, Joe DiMaggio, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, or any other athlete," said Mike Berkus, co-Executive Director of The National. "All Steve has to do is show up, prove he is in fact the real Steve Bartman -- not some earphone-wearing imposter -- and he'll move to the top of the autograph value list," said Wesley Hein, CEO of SportsBuy.com. ...
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
... bill; a bill to combat child exploitation by pornographers, and a measure to create a database for Lou Gehrig's disease. Many have Republican cosponsors.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
... bill; a bill to combat child exploitation by pornographers, and a measure to create a database for Lou Gehrig's disease. Many have Republican cosponsors.Coburn said he supported the intent of many of the bills, but argued that by trying to force legislation to a vote without debate and the right to offer amendments, "we are doing great damage to the institution of the Senate."He said that...
Physorg (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
By layering military records of troop locations onto Gulf-area maps, "we've found there were some areas of service where there appears to be an elevated risk," said Marie Lynn Miranda, an associate professor at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment whose group uses geographic information systems (GIS) to study environmental health problems. Also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease because it crippled...
The mental_floss Blogs (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
In its early years, Wheaties put photos of famous sports figures on the side panels or back of their boxes. Lou Gehrig was the first athlete to appear on the box, and the first female was not a sportswoman, per se, but an aviatrix – Elinor Smith. Wheaties didn’t put a woman on the front of their box until 1984 (over 30 years after the first male athlete appeared in that spot), when gymnast Mary...
