Word: emphysema
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DIED. WILLIAM COWSILL, 58, teen heartthrob and lead singer of the Cowsills, the 1960s pop band that featured his mother and four siblings and inspired TV's The Partridge Family; after suffering from numerous ailments, including emphysema; in Calgary, Alta. News of his death came on the day the family--famous for hits like Indian Lake and The Rain, the Park and Other Things--was holding a memorial service for his brother Barry, the Cowsills' bass player, who drowned in the flooding following Hurricane Katrina...
Mining, however, is a different kind of danger, and its disasters take us not just out of our routine but out of our time. The men?and they are still mostly men?risk explosion or asphyxiation, to say nothing of cancer and emphysema, not for a principle or a geopolitical end but to put food on the table. They hark back to Dickensian, even prehistoric times, when making a living meant chancing death...
...attached to cigarettes was John Galbraith, 69, that even while hospitalized with lung cancer, heart disease and emphysema, he would slip off his oxygen mask to sneak a smoke. Before death ended his 51-year, three-pack-a-day habit in 1982, Galbraith had filed a $1 million product-liability suit against R.J. Reynolds, contending that the company that marketed the Winstons and Camels he puffed so prodigiously fueled his addiction and thus killed him. But last week a jury in Santa Barbara, Calif., voted 9 to 3 that Galbraith's lawyer Melvin Belli had not proved that smoking necessarily...
SEVENTIES AND BEYOND. "The 70s are different than they used to be," says Nelson. "There is no reason not to do aerobics or strength training [at that age]." The greatest benefit often occurs in those who are frail (see box) or suffer from such conditions as emphysema, heart disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, high blood pressure and arthritis. As you might expect, flexibility and balance training are more important than ever. And it appears that seniors are starting to heed the advice they're getting to keep moving. According to surveys conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number...
DIED. FRANK GORSHIN, 72, rubbery-faced impressionist-actor who channeled his passion for film idols, nourished as a teenage film usher in Pittsburgh, Pa., into a 50-year career in Las Vegas clubs, on TV and in more than 80 movies; of lung cancer, emphysema and pneumonia; in Burbank, Calif. With his apery of Al Jolson, James Cagney and Marlon Brando, Gorshin was a regular on The Ed Sullivan Show, where he was a guest the night the Beatles made their famous U.S. TV debut. ("Look at all these kids that came to see me!" he said backstage...