Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Under the right circumstances -- temperature in three digits, air conditioner broken, the tube showing tractor-pull-contest reruns, the dog under the bed with an attack of chiggers, marriage teetering, car defunct with black-lung disease and only one movie within walking distance -- Pink Cadillac is a tolerable summer-weight flick. Clint Eastwood and Bernadette Peters have a somewhat better time than the viewer, but they probably do in real life...
Imelda Marcos, the outspoken wife of the Philippines' deposed President, is nothing if not determined to take her man home. But Ferdinand Marcos' successor, Corazon Aquino, refuses to allow the 71-year-old former leader, who suffers from heart and lung ailments, to return dead or alive from exile in Hawaii...
Until 15 years ago, for example, Whitten says that after the age of 25, it was believed there would be approximately a one percent annual decline in physical activity due to a person's decreasing maximum lung capacity. Studies of athletes who train into their middle ages, however, show that this is not true, he says. Whitten has expressed some of his ideas on aging in an article called "Aging, Sexuality, and Exercise," which he wrote for Psychology Today...
...While the incidence of lung cancer has been leveling off for men, it has been rising among women. The report cites the American Cancer Society's estimate that lung cancer has surpassed breast malignancies as the second leading cause of death among women. "Women took up smoking in large numbers about three decades after men did so," explained Koop. "We can envision the catastrophic epidemic of lung cancer that is likely to occur among women in the coming years...
Some scientists think the public has become overanxious. "The tropical oil issue is growing out of proportion," declares Basil Rifkind, a cholesterol researcher at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. Roughly 15% of the calories in Americans' diets now come from saturated fats. And tropical oils supply only about a fourteenth of that amount. Americans might better worry about cutting back on the two biggest sources of saturated fat: meat and dairy products...