Word: lunged
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Hilly Kristal, who died Aug. 28 of complications from lung cancer, agreed to a rare interview in November 2006 to discuss the legacy of CBGB, the club he had founded to promote his first musical loves - country, bluegrass and blues (CBGB) - and which in the 1970s and '80s became the official mecca of the underground New York rock scene. By that point, he had been battling cancer for some time, making him noticeably skinnier and less mobile...
...were "guilty until proven innocent." The adoptions of two of the Casa Quivira children, in fact, were found to be legal, and those infants have since left for the U.S. But the rest have been removed to other private facilities, and nine were hospitalized with lung problems and other sicknesses...
...Breaking, above. Influenced by Stuart Davis, Picasso and Miró, as well as the comics she loved as a kid, Murray blended high and low within her pieces and in their exhibition; two of her large mosaic murals adorn New York City subway stops. She was 66 and had lung cancer...
Though it may be premature to inaugurate the term "office lung," the new study highlights the fact that indoor air pollution can't be taken lightly. "It's important to appreciate that most of the air we breathe - whether in our homes, our cars or our offices - is indoors," says Weschler. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that 90% of our time is spent indoors. According to Weschler, indoor pollution either seeps in from outside (such as particulate matter from car exhaust, ground-level ozone and noxious gases, like sulfur dioxide, which comes from fuel combustion and factories) or originates inside...
...spite of the fact that many of the more common cancers, including skin cancer and lung cancer, are associated with behaviors such as sunbathing and smoking early in life, 25% of respondents believed that such behaviors do not increase long-term cancer risk...