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...That would start a fertilization process eventually resulting in seed and the propagation of the species. As a result of one of nature's oversights, however, many of the pollen grains reached another moist and sticky target first: a human eye or the mucous membranes of a nose or bronchial tube, where they set off a chain of events with a decidedly different outcome...
Last week, under pressure from Congress, the Department of Veterans Affairs conceded that exposure to mustard gas could indeed cause bronchial and lung disorders as well as chronic conjunctivitis and corneal opacities. Officials encouraged veterans involved in the experiments who suffer from such illnesses to contact the nearest regional office, after which the V.A. will belatedly do the right thing by offering them compensatory payments of up to $1,620 a month...
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...
...President Corazon Aquino, who has steadfastly refused to allow Marcos back into the country, did not budge. Despite Laurel's bleak assessment of Marcos, who is ailing with congestive heart failure, pneumonia and bronchial asthma, Aquino said, "I don't think he's dying." Aquino may have nothing to fear if Marcos returns home, but some believe Imelda might use the occasion to rally opposition to Aquino's rule. "Let's not kid ourselves for a moment," wrote columnist Maximo Soliven in the pro-Aquino Philippine Star. "She's raring for a comeback...
...estimates that 450,000 asthma sufferers, or 5%, are sulfite sensitive. For many, suggests Immunologist Ronald Simon of the Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation in La Jolla, Calif., the problem stems from sulfur dioxide, which is released by the sulfite solution. The fumes cause spasms in the bronchial tubes, preventing oxygen from getting into the lungs and blood. Notes Dr. Simon: "Asthmatics are exquisitely sensitive to sulfur dioxide...