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...which descended on a Caribbean town during a 1902 volcanic eruption. More worrisome is the realization that mankind's existence is, according to the laws of probability, fleeting. Writes de Villiers: "The period of calm in which the human species was formed is only a brief drawing of the breath before the cosmic assault begins once more." So how do we maximize our time in what de Villiers calls a "perilously thin habitable layer on a vulnerable and unstable planet in a hostile neighborhood"? Plan for the worst. As he says, "Good information is the best antidote...
...dissolved, Lance Bass is gay, and TRL silently ran its last episode while I sat in my room pretending to work on my thesis. I feel a certain degree of guilt about letting my last chance to watch the show slip by, not because I was waiting with bated breath to see who was number one, but because I cannot imagine my 13-year-old self feeling anything but shame at the way her 21-year-old counterpart forgot this defining feature of her adolescence...
...study's findings come as no shock, says Dr. Norman Edelman, chief medical officer for the American Lung Association. The symptoms of wheezing and shortness of breath, which frequently get confused for asthma, may signal a host of other health problems, including the a respiratory infection, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, anxiety and congestive heart failure. In fact, congestive heart failure is so often misdiagnosed as asthma that lung experts often refer to it as "cardiac asthma," Edelman says. "All that wheezes is not asthma...
...departments wait with bated breath for an uncertain future...
...family has ruled the city for the better part of a half-century. And while the current mayor is considered tamer than his father, who was accused of swinging the 1960 election for John F. Kennedy with the help of some Chicago voters who had already drawn their last breath, Richard M. Daley has been dogged by problems of his own. At least one of his aides has been convicted in a contract-scam case, and the city council is rarely scandal-free...