Word: lungfuls
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...based China Labor Bulletin, working from an unofficial estimate given by a senior work-safety bureaucrat, thinks as many as 20,000 miners die in accidents each year. And that count doesn't include tens of thousands more of the country's estimated 5 million miners who die of lung afflictions and other work-related diseases every year...
...loose khakis and a white T shirt, trailed step for step by a lazy-looking dreadlocked puli. He has three laptops full of music in his living room but can't work iTunes on any of them, and when friends stop by, he greets them with well-intended but lung-collapsing hugs. He's your classic effortlessly amiable clumsy dude--a metaphorical Buddha in a terry-cloth robe...
DIED. Ahmed Abu Laban, 60, prominent religious leader in Denmark who last year galvanized fellow Muslims around the world to protest newspaper cartoons featuring the Prophet Muhammad; of lung cancer; in Copenhagen. Saying he was humiliated by the cartoons--one of which showed Muhammad with a bomb in his turban--Laban helped fuel rage that many Danes blamed for sparking anti-Danish violence in the Middle East...
DIED. Desi Arnaz, 69, Cuban-born actor, bandleader and innovative TV producer, best known for playing Harried Husband Ricky Ricardo in television's phenomenally successful series I Love Lucy (1951-59); of lung cancer; in Del Mar, Calif. Fleeing Cuba after the revolution of 1933, he formed a Latin dance band, making his film debut in Too Many Girls (1940), where he met and married his leading lady Lucille Ball. While co-starring with her in Lucy, he headed their production studio, Desilu, pioneering in the use of film for TV programs. The approach preserved Lucy and other shows, resulting...
DIED. Frank McCarthy, 74, retired U.S. Army brigadier general and film producer who marshaled his military expertise to help create the films Patton (1970) and MacArthur (1977); of lung cancer; in Woodland Hills, Calif. McCarthy served as an aide to Army Chief of Staff General George Marshall during World War II and as an Assistant Secretary of State in the Truman Administration...