Word: lungfuls
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...watch out. Those supposedly apocryphal tales of spouses who die within days of each other have more than a little truth to them. A 2007 British study found that at any given moment, a bereaved spouse has a greater risk of death from just about any cause (except, oddly, lung cancer) than a still married person. "Over time," says Coan, "your brain becomes used to the other person as part of your emotional-regulation strategy. You take that person away, and you become what we dryly call dysregulated--weepy, mournful, stay up half the night. This can come from death...
...approved anticancer drugs that weaken tumors by blocking their blood supply. "The idea was met with skepticism and ridicule back then, but he doggedly persisted in proving his ideas," says Li. "He lived long enough to see his idea transformed into new treatments for colon cancer, lung cancer, kidney cancer, liver cancer and multiple myeloma...
...Folkman's first compound, which biotech companies rushed to test in people at the beginning of this decade, proved less effective in patients than in mice, giving skeptics yet another reason to doubt the approach. But that agent, dismissed by U.S. researchers, eventually won approval in 2005 for treating lung cancer in China, where it is extending the lives of non-small-cell lung cancer patients...
...promised to be the success story of the subcontinent, a democratic entity divested of India's terrible legacy of caste entitlement. Little more than a year after Mohammed Ali Jinnah signed the document declaring Pakistan a sovereign state, the erudite, Savile Row-suited father of the nation died of lung cancer and tuberculosis, leaving the infant democracy bereft of his enlightened guidance. With him died the charismatic leadership that his new nation, divided into West and East Pakistan (later Bangladesh), desperately needed in order to grow as a modern state. In a sense, Pakistan has been searching for its parents...
...Pepsi: The Choice of a New Generation" (including, regrettably, the commercial in which Michael Jackson's hair caught fire); "It's Not TV. It's HBO"; GE's "We Bring Good Things to Life"; and Visa's "It's Everywhere You Want to Be." He was 71 and had lung cancer...