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On Jan. 15, 2011, our family will celebrate my son Michael’s 11th birthday. It is also the day that will be the fourth anniversary of his stroke. The unthinkable happened. Jan. 15, 2007, was a day ...

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Jodie Foster May Have Stroke for Ron HowardThe director wants Foster to play Jill Bolte Taylor, the brain scientist who experienced a stroke at age 37.

Based on: My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey, By Jill Bolte Taylor. 183 pp., illustrated. New York, Viking, 2008. $24.95., 978-0-670-02074-4 ...