Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...People wander around; daydream. They don't mince like Japanese, but amble as men in secure possession of the earth under their feet." He also was struck by the candor of those he interviewed. At Canton's Sun Yat-sen University, he talked with Professor Fu Chih-lung, a Minnesota Ph.D. in biology, who had given up theoretical research to develop a new breed of insects that would kill agricultural pests. "It's like the Nixon Doctrine," his guide remarked dryly. "Asians to fight Asians...
...Lorin Kerr, medical director of the United Mine Workers of America, will talk about the medical, social, and legal issues surrounding the black lung disease at 7:30 p.m. today in Amphitheatre C at the Harvard Medical School...
...high-powered cars are far more polluting than prewar models. Even worse, pollutants can be synergistic. "If the levels of sulfur dioxide and a carcinogen [cancer producing substance] in polluted air are both doubled," Commoner explains, "the resulting hazard is much more than doubled, because sulfur dioxide inhibits the lung's self-protective mechanism and makes it more susceptible to the carcinogen...
Every occupation has its hazards. Miners are prone to anthracosis or "black lung," divers to the bends and tennis players to bursitis. According to Dr. Frank Gross of the U.S. Public Health Service, who describes his findings in the New England Journal of Medicine, many physicians suffer from a condition to be known henceforth as the Emperor's Clothes Syndrome...
...court seeking to force a rerun of the 1969 election on grounds that it was conducted illegally. Boyle is under indictment by the Justice Department, charged with illegally using union funds for political contributions. To add to Boyle's problems, another bloc called the Black Lung Association has threatened wildcat strikes if he does not raise his wage-and-benefit demands even further...