Word: lungfuls
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Adam B. Ulam, Gurney professor of history and political science emeritus and a world-renowned expert on the history of the Soviet Union, died of lung cancer Tuesday at Youville Hospital in Cambridge...
...late 1970s, and Sterling Lung, 26, the son of Chinese immigrants, believes he has struggled free from the clutches of his parents' old-fashioned expectations. A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, where, he says, he was named "most likely to serve," Sterling is the chef at the Richfield Ladies' Club in green and tastefully affluent Connecticut. When one of the ladies praises his ponytail and guesses that he wears it in honor of his forebears back in China, Sterling muses, "My forebears? Think Beatles, Jerry Garcia...
...scan at a local hospital confirmed Lorri's battlefield diagnosis. Not only had the pencil pierced Nathan's heart, but it had penetrated a valve. He would need open-heart surgery--which meant Nathan had to be airlifted to the nearest cardiac surgeon and heart-lung machine, in Great Falls, 100 miles away...
...nearly three hours before Nathan finally made it to the operating table. A team led by Dr. Brett Williams--summoned from his own 45th-birthday celebration--put the right side of Nathan's heart into cardiac arrest, diverted his blood supply to the heart-lung machine and began repairing the damage. "There was absolutely no blood anywhere. It looked to be an immaculate perforation," Williams told TIME...
DIED. JOSEPH WOLFSON, 50, legendary surfer who was nicknamed "Dr. 360" after being the first boogie boarder to turn full circle while riding a wave; in a car crash; in Los Angeles. Surfers rescued Wolfson in 1998, after the lung-cancer patient left a note onshore with $5,000 for a funeral party and paddled...