Word: lunged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. DOUG MCCLURE, 59; former broncobuster and star of TV westerns such as The Virginian and The Overland Trail; of lung cancer; in Sherman Oaks, California...
Chan-whose Chinese screen name, Sing Lung, translates as "becoming the dragon"-is so fearless as to seem, by mere human standards, senseless. In Police Story he hitches a ride on a speeding bus by running up from behind, hooking an umbrella handle onto a window ledge and hanging on while fighting off a brood of bad guys. (Gape in envy, Keanu Reeves!) In The Armour of God II: Operation Condor he drives his motorcycle off a riverside pier and leaps off in midair to catch onto the net of a passing mechanical crane. (Page your stunt double, Mr. Seagal...
...aggressive antismoking campaign in Sweden is raising angry smoke signals in Denmark because it targets Prince cigarettes, a popular Danish brand. The posters now confronting smokers throughout Sweden feature shocking images--an anxious-looking woman flanked by an X ray of a cancer-stricken woman with only one lung--and even stronger headlines: Seduced by a Prince and Killed by a Prince. Though the manufacturer of Prince cigarettes is not taking legal action, offended Danes are fighting back. ``Since thousands of people are killed in traffic every year,'' the Copenhagen tabloid Ekstra Bladet editorialized, ``why not print posters with Raped...
Even positive trends are seldom entirely reassuring. Smoking is down among adults, though lung-cancer deaths continue to rise rapidly among women because they began smoking in large numbers less than 50 years ago. But teenagers, with their genius for perversity, are smoking more than in recent years. Should adult society shrug and blame Joe Camel, or hit the kids over the head with market forces in the form of a $2-a-pack...
...five-year study by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute finds that early symptoms of lung diseases such as emphysema and bronchitis disappear when smokers kick the habit, no matter how many years they have smoked...