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...Metaphor. In the popular imagination, it is not just another disease but the embodiment of evil. In some European countries, it was a common practice for doctors to lie to their cancer patients. Physicians would give the diagnosis to the family but not to the victim, as if giving breath to the word could do physical harm...
...present myself. A one-minute speech. It has to be perfect--sweeping rhetoric, hard substance, and a personal appeal--all in 60 seconds. I took a deep breath and looked around the room...
...media conspiracy, media sponge, media sponge. Look at that guy smoking and talking with shadowed breath. See all the taxi drivers? They're smarter than everyone at Harvard put together...
...speed-skating event, got up on a podium a composed 27-year- old woman in a purple track suit who had been done out of her gold, she felt, by a competitor's error. Would she protest? "Maybe I will try" -- and the whole room held its breath -- "to set my sights for the next Olympic Games, if possible." Then, gallantry exhausted, she suddenly thought of all the years going by. Her first three years of training had been wiped out, she explained, when she was disqualified for doping just before Calgary. The next 15 months were lost...
Brianna Oas has never drawn an easy breath. When she was a baby, her tiny chest convulsed at the slightest irritation. Instead of laughing, she would cough; instead of crying, gag. She succumbed to an endless string of , respiratory infections -- pneumonia, a cold, bronchitis, pneumonia again -- that ordinary antibiotics seemed powerless to curb. Diagnosed with a "failure to thrive," Brianna weighed less at one year than she did at six months. Finally, last August, just after the child's third birthday, her anxious parents took her to the University of Washington pulmonary clinic in Seattle. Chest X rays revealed that...