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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laying Siege to A Deadly Gene | 2/24/1992 | See Source »

...plastic surgeons were willing to cough up hundreds of dollars each to finance the ASPRS's campaign to show the bright side of the breast-implant story. Though nearly 2 million micromastia victims have been cured, millions more remain untreated, as shown by the continued existence of the plague's dread symbol -- the A-cup bra. There have been many earnest attempts to reach the untreated: public health-oriented magazines like Playboy, for example, repeatedly print photos illustrating normal breast size for the woman in doubt. Tragically, though, many women still live in denial, concealing their condition under mannish blazers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stamping Out A Dread Scourge | 2/17/1992 | See Source »

Unable to get tickets to the speech itself, the group of undergraduates and others listened to Cuomo attentively, breaking the silence only with an occasional cough or applause for a bit of Cuomo wisdom...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crowds Cheer Cuomo | 2/13/1992 | See Source »

Soon afterward--but not before she and Barr have leaped into bed--Heather, in a cough-syrup induced alcoholic frenzy, crushes her husband's (Eric Roberts) skull with a dumbbell. Barr gets his best friends to defend her, and she is found innocent by means of "pathological intoxication" and sent to a mental hospital...

Author: By Brady S. Martin, | Title: Suspense on the Couch: Booze, Sex, a Murder And a Mystery | 2/13/1992 | See Source »

...Bankses splurge on swans.Franck doesn't want "chip" chicken at the wedding,so the Bankses splurge on seafood. Franck wants torepaint the Banks' house, remove all theirfurniture, install a tulip border...you get theidea. If Annie is going to have a lohhhvlahwahhhdink, George is going to have to cough up the$1200 for Franck's kek, even though, as George soinsensitively points out, a kek is just flour andwater. "Wilcome to za Nahntees, Moostah Bahnks!"Franck cackles with tyrannical glee. So Nina tellsGeorge to stop being such a spoilsport. So Georgerelents. So Annie smiles with relief. Good boy,George...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Father of the Bride--A Remake With Remade Message | 2/6/1992 | See Source »

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