Word: lunged
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DIED. Freddy Fender, 69, three-time Grammy winner who began his career as "El Bebop Kid," singing Elvis songs in Spanish, and in 1975 topped the pop and country charts with Before the Next Teardrop Falls; of lung cancer; in Corpus Christi, Texas. Born Baldemar Huerta to migrant parents in South Texas, he based his stage name on the brand of his guitar and later joined two critically acclaimed Tex-Mex bands, the Texas Tornados and Los Super Seven...
...much by writing experience as it was by childhood experiences of illness. “When I was about five or six, I had severe asthma attacks,” he says. Despite his “near-fatal” condition—Mayer lost part of his lung during that period—he looks at his childhood of hospital visits and medical tests in a positive light, saying that it has spurred his interest in a medical career, possibly as a pulmonologist...
...spread to her liver. During a local TV appearance in which Appel planned to promote a fund raiser, her colleagues surprised her by awarding her wish for a "grammy camp" in Colorado with her daughter, son-in-law and three grandchildren. Appel invited the kids' other grandmother, who had lung cancer, to come along. The grandkids and their two grandmas--both "bald as billiards," Appel says--swam, fished, made s'mores together and rode a wagon drawn by Belgian draft horses...
DIED. Edward Albert, 55, actor best known for his sensitive, moving portrayal of a young blind man struggling to break free of his protective mother in the 1972 film Butterflies Are Free; of lung cancer; in Los Angeles. Like his father, actor Eddie Albert, the younger Albert--who appeared in more than 100 films (Guarding Tess, Midway) and TV shows (Falcon Crest)--spent much of his time working to preserve the environment and Native American culture, serving on numerous boards, including the California Coastal Commission...
...heads are often advised to take a deep breath, but a recent Harvard study suggests that they might not have the lung capacity to do it. Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) have found that high levels of hostility may lead to pulmonary function deterioration. The study examined data gathered by the Veterans Administration Normative Aging Study on 670 men aged 45 to 86 who were assessed on the Cook-Medley Hostility Scale in 1986 and then subjected to follow-up pulmonary function examinations obtained over the course of eight years. Researchers found that...