Word: lungful
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Several stories emerge, darkly, through the translational murk. In one, a character called "I" learns that he does not have lung cancer, as previously diagnosed, and embarks on a journey through China in search of "spiritual tranquility." Reclusiveness attracts him, but he also craves the company of others. His indecisiveness frustrates him: "Too much analytical thinking, too much logic, too many meanings! Life has no logic, so why does there have to be logic to explain what it means? Also, what is logic...
...Dayton Accord cut the bonds to a large extent between the mother states and ethnic communities in Bosnia. So that's created an irony now where Croatian and Serb nationalism in Bosnia is more vibrant than in Croatia or Serbia. Dayton is now a kind of iron lung for nationalism in Bosnia...
...addition to having a brother who is living with skin cancer, Delaney-Smith has lost both of her parents to the disease. Her father passed away from lung cancer when she was five, and her mother died of bone marrow cancer...
...Lloyd's syndicates--claiming they were the victims of one of the great swindles of the 20th century. As TIME recounted in a special report last February, the Names said they were fraudulently misled about huge potential liabilities resulting from compensation paid to American workers afflicted by asbestosis and lung cancer. They further alleged that the Lloyd's hierarchy was party to the fraud because it knew of the looming problems but allowed its syndicates to under-reserve for the resulting losses--thus helping conceal the true state of affairs from the recruits needed to fund a bailout...
...virus can be passed from one person to another a number of ways--primarily through direct contact. Scientists have recently isolated Ebola viruses from the sweat, blood, saliva and lung tissue of those sorry individuals autopsied during the 1995 Ebola outbreak in Zaire. That epidemic was brought under control through a strategy that sought to limit the skin-to-skin contacts between infected individuals and their healthy, living caretakers...