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...thought an unmanageable disease, asthma, say two Harvard professors, can now be effectively treated and controlled...
Ironically, Bo had seemed an unlikely prospect for a criminal career. While his two brothers, Tony and Darron, ran with tough gangs and had arrest records, he avoided violence. Overweight and suffering from asthma, Bo was a well-liked teenager who took school seriously. He jumped at the chance to ride buses to a predominantly white high school in Sepulveda. He was given a room by a white family so he would be close to his new school and able to take the grocery job nearby. Unlike most of his friends, he managed to graduate from high school...
...some 100 important drugs and natural substances, including the hormone-like prostaglandins used both to treat infertility and to induce abortions. Two years ago, his group synthesized the active substance in a Chinese folk medicine, taken from the ginkgo tree, that is now widely administered as a treatment for asthma and circulation disorders. But he was also honored last week for a broader intellectual achievement: pioneering "retrosynthetic analysis," an approach to building molecules that Roald Hoffmann, a Nobel- winning chemist himself, likens to a chess game with nature...
There are more imported delicacies available in this city than there have been for years, quail and cheeses liberated from the refrigerators of Kuwaiti sheiks and destined for the tables of privileged Iraqis. But there is almost no medicine for high blood pressure, heart conditions and asthma. Some factories are beginning to shut down, people are hoarding their money, many shopkeepers sit idle. In the diplomatic residences of the fashionable Al- Mansur neighborhood, ambassadors and attaches debate the options for Saddam and the U.S.: almost all are bad, and most end in grief or horror. Among Westerners, there is some...
Babies are born with malformed hearts, children suffer from bronchial asthma, and adults struggle with lead poisoning. Suau's stark photographs are but one glimpse of the anguished land left behind by Nicolae Ceausescu, who put Copsa Mica (pop. 6,000) into industrial overdrive. Situated 150 miles northwest of Bucharest, the town is in the county of Sibiu, which was once governed by the late dictator's son Nicu. Likely to go on trial within the next few months, Nicu could receive life imprisonment if convicted. A more appropriate punishment might be to sentence him to spend the rest...