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...same energy can exhaust actors. Palin remembers almost breaking his back on Jabberwocky when Gilliam repeatedly got him to walk up some stairs leaning at an unnatural and painful angle. "He thinks he can make people in real life do what he draws on paper," says Palin. "He doesn't mean to upset anyone, but I have heard stories of people cracking up on his films...
...real story, the trial lawyers point out, is that a 32-year-old doctor, who had no history of heart trouble, fell victim to a heart attack after futilely yanking the lawn mower's starter cord 15 times. A Philadelphia jury found that the mower's exhaust valve failed to meet the manufacturer's own specifications, hindering start-up to the extent that the rope indeed had to be pulled with excessive force. The jury did award $1,750,000, but the case was subsequently settled for an undisclosed amount...
According to researchers at the American Thoracic Society meeting last week, a good joke may bring on asthma symptoms as effectively as tree pollen or exhaust fumes. In a study of 235 asthmatics, laughter induced symptoms like coughing and chest tightness in 56%. How much laughter is too much? For some patients, a giggle was as dangerous as a guffaw...
...converts often feel toward their unenlightened compatriots. The narrator of Annamalai, a writer by trade, describes his method of coping with a difficult but intriguing servant: "The only way to exist in harmony with Annamalai was to take him as he was; to improve or enlighten him would only exhaust the reformer and disrupt nature's design." From Narayan's decision to suspend judgments hangs a galaxy of irresistible tales. --By Paul Gray
...timers are turning bluer too--perhaps as a result of choking on the polluted air that issues from the state's assorted smelters, refineries, pulp mills, oil and gas wells and non-emission-controlled exhaust pipes. The inevitable legacy of almost everyone doing pretty much anything he wished is a huge environmental mess, from the copper mines of Butte, where the water table is thick with heavy metals, to the asbestos mines of Libby, where laborers are dying in large numbers from chronic respiratory ailments. No wonder Montanans legalized medical marijuana last fall. The stuff is said to ease...