Word: lungful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...already! A study out last week examined the respiratory health of bartenders in California before and after smoking was banned in bars earlier this year. The finding? Just two months after the ban took effect, 59% of bartenders said their wheezing, coughing and other respiratory problems had cleared up. Lung function--a measure of the rate of breathing and volume of air exhaled--also improved...
...waist so they could see the wounds they were inflicting. They were in no hurry to kill him. At one point a youth--he could not have been 18--leaned over and quite deliberately stuck an ice pick between two ribs deep into Siahae's right lung. He pulled it out again and looked at the blood on the steel with satisfaction. Siahae was face down on the concrete now, heaving for breath, too battered to cry out, barely conscious. His back was scored with stab wounds. The youth was smiling...
DIED. HENRY HAMPTON, 58, Emmy-winning documentary producer; from a bone-marrow ailment brought on by lung cancer; in Boston. Hampton produced 60 films, many chronicling the lives of the poor, but he was best known for the 1987 civil rights opus Eyes on the Prize. Of the series, which won a Peabody Award for excellence in journalism, he said, "A hundred civil rights stories had been told, but it was always black people being saved by whites. In Eyes, we brought our people up in history...
...these cleanup bills yet another cost from pollution: the billions spent on health care to treat conditions ranging from black-lung disease to asbestosis. These costs are yet to be counted; it often takes years, even decades, to document links between chemicals and other products and deadly or debilitating diseases...
...lighting up all the way from Punching the Culture Club to spending a semester in Paris [vol.10,no.4, 6 respectively]. And furthermore, it seems that puffing on cigarettes has given way to its illegal counterpart...Burn baby burn?[vol.10,no.1] FM can escape the Harvard inferno and risks of lung cancer with the help of Project ADD, an undergraduate peer education group dedicated to substance abuse issues on campus. Visit the project on the second floor of UHS, Monday through Friday 9am-5pm or call them...