Word: breaths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Edward Falk, a 43-year-old New Jersey carpenter, could not work last year because of shortness of breath. By early October he could not even summon up enough wind to get out of bed. His complaint was emphysema, a condition in which the myriad tiny sacs on the inner surface of the lungs become blistered, scarred and fibrous. With their loss of elasticity, they lose the capacity to exchange carbon dioxide and life-sustaining oxygen. Once considered an uncommon disease, emphysema is now being diagnosed much more often. In most cases, as in Falk's, the underlying cause...
...general in 1968. He is trim, handsome and only 43. Along with his political ambitions, though, Scott just hates pollution, as he has ever since his daughter was born with asthma in a smoggy Chicago suburb. "I had to carry her in my arms while she gasped for every breath," he recalls. "What greater crime is there than to poison the air that people breathe...