World News : Barbara Warren has died after breaking her neck in a bike crash??

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Barbara Warren, one of the world's elite endurance athletes in her age group and one-half of a well-known pair of triathlete twins, has died after breaking her neck in a bike crash at the Santa Barbara Triathlon. She was 65.

Warren, of San Diego, died Tuesday at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital when her family told doctors to take her off a ventilator, her twin sister Angelika Drake told the San Diego Union-Tribune.
Warren crashed her bike on a downhill road about halfway through the 34-mile cycling section of the race on Saturday, race director Joe Coito said.
Warren was paralyzed from the neck down and was breathing with the aid of the ventilator. Drake said her sister told the family by blinking and nodding that she wanted to die.
"I talked to her and she nodded over and over and over again. She wanted to leave," Drake said. "No athlete would like to have a life with only their eyes talking."
Warren's two daughters and her husband Tom were also with her at the hospital when she died.
Warren won her age group in the 2003 Ironman Triathlon World Championship in Hawaii. She competed in the race, the world's top triathlon, 13 times and finished in the top five in her age group eight times.
The two sisters alternated riding bikes in the Race Across America, covering 2,983 miles in less than 10 days.
Warren also competed in a seven-day race across the Sahara Desert, and finished a triple Ironman in France that included a 7.2-mile swim, 336-mile bike ride and 78.6-mile run.
Warren was well-loved among younger triathletes.
Michellie Jones, who won a triathlon silver medal in the 2000 Olympics and won the 2006 Ironman World Title, was also a twin who remembered her fondly.
"She always asked about my sister," Jones said. "She understood the bond."
Warren's twin said she lay next to her sister as she died.
"My heart and my soul are gone," Drake said. "She was everything in my life."

Margaret Thatcher : suffering from dementia for the past seven years???

Margaret Thatcher : suffering from dementia for the past seven years???

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher LG, OM, PC, FRS (born Roberts on 13 October 1925(1925-10-13)) is a British politician, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She is the first and only woman to date to hold either post.

LONDON (Reuters) - Former British prime abbot Margaret Thatcher -- already accepted as one of the world's best appalling political minds -- has been adversity from dementia for the accomplished seven years, according to her daughter, Carol.

Carol Thatcher tells in her memoirs of how her 82-year-old mother, nicknamed the "Iron Lady" for her boxy reputation, generally struggles to bethink things and repeats questions.

In a account serialised in the Mail on Sunday newspaper, her babe paints a account of a actual altered woman from the political ample who strutted the apple date in the 1980s.

"The woman who had bedeviled discussions for so continued could no best advance debates or accumulate up with the cilia of a drinks-party conversation," she wrote.

"On bad days, she could hardly bethink the alpha of a book by the time she got to the end."

Thatcher rarely appears in accessible these canicule afterwards actuality brash by doctors in 2002 that she should abstain accessible speaking afterward a alternation of accessory strokes.

People adversity with dementia accept a cogent accident of the brainy abilities that affect circadian life. It is acquired by assorted factors such as strokes, tumours, arch injuries and Alzheimer's ache and affects some 700,000 bodies in Britain, about two-thirds of them women.

Carol Thatcher said the aboriginal assurance of dementia appeared back her mother was about 75, back she abashed the Falklands and Bosnian conflicts in a chat over lunch.

"I about fell off my chair," Carol Thatcher wrote, according to excerpts of the book which will be appear abutting month. "Watching her attempt with her words and her memory, I couldn't accept it. She was in her 75th year but I had consistently anticipation of her as ageless, around-the-clock and 100 per cent cast-iron damage-proof."

Thatcher took ability in Britain in a accepted acclamation on May 3, 1979, acceptable the nation's aboriginal and alone changeable prime minister. She larboard the acclaimed Number 10 Downing Street appointment afterwards a record-breaking 11 years in power.

At the aiguille of her admiral in the aboriginal 1980s, Thatcher's arduous backbone of personality fabricated her one of the West's best accepted figures, acclaimed for "handbagging" her opponents into abetment her, or at atomic abetment down.

Carol Thatcher wrote that one of the best difficult episodes in contempo years had been the afterlife of her ancestor Denis Thatcher in 2003, which her mother generally forgot had happened.

"Losing Dad ... was absolutely abominable for Mum, not atomic because her dementia meant she kept apathy he was dead," she wrote.

"I had to accumulate giving her the bad account over and over again."

Margaret Thatcher : suffering from dementia for the past seven years???