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There was one surprise from the North American study. Contrary to expectations, children on inhaled steroids did not fare better than the control group in tests that measure lung capacity. Researchers speculate that there was already some permanent damage that the steroids could not counteract, as study subjects had been found to have asthma an average of five years before they started treatment. Some experts believe that for optimal results, steroid therapy should begin within two or three years of the initial symptoms. If that's the case, doctors may need to give inhaled steroids to children as young...
...International Olympics Committee faces questions of fascinating and far more complex implication: Forget drugs. Entire Olympic teams might be bio-engineered and compete on their margins of mechanical perfection, like computer-designed Grand Prix cars and racing yachts. Swimmers, for example, engineered with enormous webbed feet and fabulous lung capacity. The new-model C. J. Hunter should be able to put the shot from Sydney to Perth...
...forcing them to go through a new bureaucracy and jump through a series of arbitrary medical hoops with no basis in existing science before becoming eligible to file suit. Even greater obstacles to compensation would be placed in front of the spouse or children of asbestos workers who contracted lung cancer from breathing fibers off of work clothes. All of this would come as a handout to the main asbestos defendants, such as W.R. Grace and Owens-Corning, who have told their stockholders that their profits are not expected to suffer due to asbestos suits. Luckily, an assurance...
...millennium will be held in Sydney, Australia, a Pacific Rim capital city. Its spectacular harbor and opera house are among the world's most dramatic settings, superbly fit for what will unfold next week. The harbor is also the site of a signature Australian event, the triathlon, a lung-burning triad of swimming, cycling and running that will be making its Olympic debut. That Australia's famous sharks may be counted as spectators simply highlights the fact that this is a country and a continent still brimming with frontier spirit. They like a challenge here...
...Kiss represents another example of Gore's exhibitionist premeditations - another exploitative glimpse of family intimacy, lubricious this time, from the candidate who in 1992 devoted eight minutes of a previous convention speech to an excruciating description of his sister's death from lung cancer. Perhaps Gore's progress from morbidly remembered death to passionately anticipated sex should be seen as a good sign - evidence of a sunnier opportunism...