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...burdens of history are balanced in the pages of Naipaul's many books and published daily on his mobile face. The muscles for consternation, annoyance, mirth, sadness, disappointment and disdain are well developed. A lifetime overcoming obscurity, asthma and anxiety among strangers in strange lands has taught him to expect the worst. His autobiographical writings toll with such gloomy remarks as "To see the possibility, the certainty, of ruin, even at the moment of creation: it was my temperament." To a visitor who has just blown through 10 1/2 time zones to arrive promptly for a meeting in Madras...
...page magazine, priced at $4.95, includes such ground-breaking reportage as "New Englanders: Still Chowderheads?" and "Wheezing Away the Summer at Asthma Camp...
...days later, Green died at 52 after an attack of chronic asthma. "What surprised me most," he had confided to TIME in a discussion about his work in New York, "is how little people really care about children...
...processing. The Government maintains that these chemicals pose little danger to the majority of the population, a position that consumer activists do not dispute. But small numbers of people appear to be acutely sensitive to some compounds. Sulfites, used in wine and on golden raisins, can provoke a fatal asthma-like attack...
...President Corazon Aquino, who has steadfastly refused to allow Marcos back into the country, did not budge. Despite Laurel's bleak assessment of Marcos, who is ailing with congestive heart failure, pneumonia and bronchial asthma, Aquino said, "I don't think he's dying." Aquino may have nothing to fear if Marcos returns home, but some believe Imelda might use the occasion to rally opposition to Aquino's rule. "Let's not kid ourselves for a moment," wrote columnist Maximo Soliven in the pro-Aquino Philippine Star. "She's raring for a comeback...