Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Asbestos, commonly used through the 1960s for building insulation, has been identifies as the cause of two forms of caner and lung disease...
...Chronic cocaine use kills the appetite and so regularly results in severe weight loss. In a three-year study, Gerald Rosen, a Duke University pharmacologist, has found that metabolized cocaine destroys dangerous numbers of liver cells. Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital, among other places, have seen evidence of serious lung damage in free-basers...
...pure, heated cocaine vapor is absorbed into the bloodstream so fast. The speed of absorption, not the size of the dose, also seems to be the operative factor in cocaine deaths. Blood vessels are simultaneously constricted and cardiopulmonary muscles overstimulated; heart attacks (sometimes not diagnosed as cocaine-triggered) or lung failure are the direct causes of death...
DIED. Lisette Model, 76, tough-minded, Austrian-born U.S. photographer whose best-known work was of unlovely, often grotesquely fat people whom she caught at moments of great vitality, conferring on them an intense confrontational power; of heart and lung disease; in New York City. Her early photos of Parisians and Niçois, which she brought with her to the U.S. in 1938, impressed American critics and were soon included in a Museum of Modern Art show, the first of many. "I am attracted to enormous forms," she once said of her work. "If I go to an aquarium...
DIED. Bob Waterfield, 62, one of pro football's most famous pre-Namath quarterbacks, who led the Cleveland, later Los Angeles, Rams from 1945 to 1952, winning a world championship his first year; of lung failure after a long illness; in Burbank, Calif. He was married to Movie Actress Jane Russell from...