Word: lunged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Thunderbolt fighter-bombers fired thousands of high-velocity shells that are made with depleted uranium, an extremely heavy metal that enables the weapons to penetrate the armor of enemy tanks. On impact, radioactive oxidized uranium is released into the air, which may have exposed anyone downwind to a lung-cancer risk. The Army and Air Force have judged the use of these shells to be safe. Yet concern over the hazards of depleted uranium goes back to at least 1980, when a New York plant that fabricated the shells from uranium metal chips was shut down. State health officials were...
That could be literally true. American specialists warn that the smoke, which is high in sulfur dioxide, can cause serious lung ailments, especially among the elderly and the very young living within 20 miles of the burning oil wells. Some scientists fear that the acrid plumes will climb into the stratosphere, darken the skies, lower temperatures and change the weather pattern of the entire gulf region. And, say oil experts, it might take until the end of 1991 to extinguish all 600 blazes...
Over the last five years, scientific evidence has emerged to link passive smoking to more than 40,000 annual deaths from lung cancer and heart disease. Many scientists now consider passive smoking the third leading preventable cause of death in the country, behind active smoking and alcohol...
...report was the work of an expert panel brought together by the National Asthma Education Program at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. This institute is a subsidiary of the National Institutes of Health, says Sheffer, who chaired the panel and directs the allergy sections at Brigham and Women's and at Deaconess Hospitals...
Bates is at ease with that degree of commitment -- both onstage and at home. Her husband John, who won three Purple Hearts and lost most of his right lung in Vietnam, has made a career of pushing himself to the limit. The last time she spoke to him, just a few days before the fighting began, he assured her that the situation "isn't as bad as it sounds." Stephanie and her son cling to those words now. "We have our highs and lows," she confides. "There are times when I'm at rehearsal and think, 'My God, what...