Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...researchers studied a group of more than 1,100 East Boston schoolchildren, testing their lung capacity--the maximum amount of air a person can exhale in one second--once a year...
...impatient sufferers (many of them dying), the good news came none too soon. Penicillin (sometimes rhymes with villain, sometimes with whistle in) is the best treatment for all staphylococcic infections, all hemolytic streptococcic infections, pneumococcic infections (of the lining of skull, spinal cord, lung and heart surfaces), pneumococcic pneumonia that sulfa drugs will not cure, all gonococcic infections (including all gonorrhea that sulfa drugs will not cure). Diseases against which penicillin is effective but not fully tested: syphilis, actinomycosis, bacterial endocarditis...
...Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China from 1974-76 who played a crucial role in improving his country's relations with the U.S. before he was dismissed from office for his alleged connections with the purged radical faction, the Gang of Four; of lung cancer; in Peking. A worldly, seasoned diplomat and close ally of the late Premier Chou Enlai, Guanhua, was known for his wide-ranging intelligence and acerbic wit. Because of his ties with Mao Tse-tung's widow, Gang of Four Leader Jiang Qing, Guanhua became one of the highest-ranking...
...also a good way to scare the public. Paraquat can be lethal to humans if swallowed in doses as small as one-tenth of an ounce and can cause serious lung scarring if inhaled...
...dilemma: the possibility of smoking tainted weed. Farming marijuana domestically, in fact, became a growth industry only when the U.S. provided funds for Mexico to use paraquat on its fields from 1975 to 1979, and contaminated samples began showing up in smuggled pot. Though not a single case of lung poisoning has so far been traced to marijuana use from that era, U.S. health officials estimate that nearly 10,000 users annually inhaled enough paraquat to be still considered at risk...