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...because women are more sensitive to the carcinogens in cigarettes, a woman who smokes the same amount as a man has a 20% to 70% higher risk of developing lung cancer. To compound that, women's tumors tend to appear on the lungs' periphery, so their cancer is often caught later...
Shower stalls are particularly suspect. Some doctors believe that mycobacteria from the pipes are becoming aerosolized in water spray. The more enclosed a shower stall, the greater the buildup of germ-infested spray. (A variant of the illness--sometimes called hot-tub lung--occurs when people develop an allergic reaction to the mycobacteria in indoor hot tubs.) Making matters worse, says Dr. Michael Iseman of National Jewish, "we have changed the way we treat our water." Since the 1970s, the temperature of most hot-water heaters has been reduced to 120[degrees] to save energy and prevent scalding--perfect conditions...
Fern Leitman, 56, a longtime Florida resident, thought her repeated bouts of pneumonia were just bad luck. Doctors told Suzan King-Carr, 58, of Hobe Sound, Fla., that the spots on her lungs were probably cancer. Ida Mae Williams, 76, of Bogalusa, La., was informed that she had tuberculosis. Three women, three different diagnoses--all of them wrong. After years of ineffectual treatment, each woman learned that she, like thousands of other Americans, had developed a mysterious lung infection that mimics TB, seems to strike thin, white women in particular and can be permanently debilitating. Most unsettling of all, they...
That can't be the whole answer, of course, since plenty of Americans take showers without getting sick. Studies show that nearly half of NTM patients are also genetically predisposed to lung infections. Some have inherited one of the genes for cystic fibrosis. Others have a defective alpha-1 anti-trypsin gene, a condition that has been linked to a high risk of emphysema. Perhaps it is a combination of bad genes and bad luck that is making people sick...
...pseudonyms. Then he set about defining the Hong Kong action movie. Such swaggering epics as The Savage 5, Shaolin Avengers and The Five Venoms filled theater and TV screens around the world, schooling a generation in the intricacies of righteous machismo. He made stars of Jimmy Wang Yu, Ti Lung, David Chiang and Alexander Fu Sheng, and mentored his assistant director (later action master) John Woo. When Chang died June 22, at 79, from pneumonia, the Shaw Brothers studios paid for the funeral of its most prolific, pioneering auteur. In Hong Kong, movie spirits are at half-mast...