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...child in the Bronx, Byron, now 42, was kept indoors much of the time by a near crippling asthma. But confinement married him to music, a music perceived not as a continent divided into separate principalities but as a unified cosmos. "A lot of the [music] that I've investigated in my life," Byron says, he first encountered "within the walls of my bedroom in my parents' house"--which is to say, within the infinite walls of imagination...
Monday night brought the first urgent protest-related medical situation: one of the protestors sitting in Mass Hall had an asthma attack and needed an inhaler. Gerger fished one out of his supplies and a police officer took it to the protester...
...Certainly coal has some positives. It is plentiful, accessible and cheaper to transport than gas or oil. Despite those benefits, coal was orphaned by the Clinton Administration as a sooty legacy of the Industrial Revolution, responsible for everything from acid rain to increasing incidence of asthma. And because of the high costs of pollution controls on coal-fired plants, utilities have turned to cleaner-burning natural gas for 90% of new plants. But by Cheney's estimate, the country will need at least 1,300 new electric-power plants over the next 20 years. And coal, which already generates more...
...into the queasy, crowded rooms where the performers copulate on lumpy mattresses. There are flashes of flesh, but the camera focuses on the audience's eerie, dead stare. When one of the women, Gigi, starts grunting loudly during sex, her partner wonders if its the onset of an asthma attack. It turns out she was trying to catch the eye of a Korean pornographer in the crowd. For most of the characters, anything that can go wrong, does. Money for Gigi's plane ticket to Japan is stolen; another girl, Rose, tries to poison herself after she tracks...
...seem transcribed from this morning's Middle East bulletins. In response to terrorist bombings in Jerusalem, Israel has barred West Bank Palestinians from entering the city. One rainy evening Marina Hajimi approaches the Shuhada checkpoint on the Ramallah road with her young son Ibrahim. He is suffering an asthma attack, and his Palestinian doctor has told her to get him quickly to Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. The Israeli army lieutenant in charge, Ari Doron, sees that the boy is in bad shape and frantically telephones higher-ups for permission to let him and his mother through. After agonizing delays, Doron...