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Keep Calm You're Only 40


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TIMELY ADVICE FOR A MILESTONE BIRTHDAY. So what if you're turning 40; after all, with age comes wisdom and more excuses to slow down and polish your snazzy new reading glasses, and at least you're not 50! This book is packed with celebratory quotations to help you shrug your shoulders, blow out the candles and Keep Calm.

Jeanne Marie Laskas first met the young forensic pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu in 2009, while reporting a story for "GQ"that would go on to inspire the movie "Concussion." Omalu told her about a day in September 2002, when, in a dingy morgue in downtown Pittsburgh, he picked up a scalpel and made a discovery that would rattle America in ways he d never intended. Omalu was Sky on Fire download epub new to America, chasing the dream, a deeply spiritual man escaping the wounds of civil war in Nigeria. The body on the slab in front of him belonged to a fifty-year-old named Mike Webster, aka Iron Mike, a Hall of Fame center for the Pittsburgh Steelers, one of the greatest ever to play the game. After retiring in 1990, Webster had suffered a dizzyingly steep decline. Toward the end of his life, he was living out of his van, tasering himself to relieve his chronic pain, and fixing his rotting teeth with Super Glue. "How did this happen?, " Omalu asked himself. "How did a young man like Mike Webster end up like this?" The search for answers would change Omalu s life forever and put him in the crosshairs of one of the most powerful corporations in America: the National Football League. What Omalu discovered in Webster s brain proof that Iron Mike s mental deterioration was no accident but a disease caused by blows to the head that could affect everyone playing the game was the one truth the NFL wanted to ignore.


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Author: none
Number of Pages: 160 pages
Published Date: 01 Sep 2012
Publisher: Summersdale Publishers
Publication Country: Chichester, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN: 9781849532228
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