Word: lungfuls
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DIED. LOU RAWLS, 72, Grammy-winning singer who performed doo-wop with high school pal Sam Cooke before recording a long list of soulful tunes for broader audiences in genres from jazz to gospel; of lung and brain cancer; in Los Angeles. Making more than 50 albums over 40 years, the man who Frank Sinatra said had the "silkiest chops in the singing game" topped the charts with R&B tunes (Love Is a Hurtin' Thing), pre-rap monologues (Tobacco Road) and, during the height of the 1970s disco craze, the rich, sophisticated "Philadelphia sound" typified on his signature megahit...
...fantasies by selecting an undercover persona - complete with false name, age and other traits - upon entering the museum. Before they exit, an interactive display tests them on how well they remember the details of their new identity. Want to feel the inside of a stomach? View a smoker's lung? The National Museum of Health and Medicine, tel: (1-202) 782 2200; www.nmhm.washingtondc.museum, enables tourists to see and feel the effects of disease on the human body, and documents the shifting course of the history of medicine, says Jeffrey Reznick, senior curator. Founded in 1862, the institution...
DIED. VINCENT SCHIAVELLI, 57, ubiquitous, droopy-eyed actor who appeared in minor-but-unforgettable roles in some 150 film and TV productions; of lung cancer; in Sicily, Italy. Among the amateur chef's memorable parts: a subway apparition in Ghost, a clueless teacher in Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Frederickson, an asylum inmate, in the Oscar-winning 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest...
...cannabis bolsters the case for medicinal use of marijuana." The studies cited, however, involved the use of cannabis extracts and synthetic marijuana chemicals, not smoking pot, as some readers might surmise. The research suggests that there are excellent ways to utilize the active ingredients in marijuana without legalizing another lung-polluting substance. The time has come for the prescription use of cannabis derivatives. TERRY K. KAISER San Diego
Unlike most country singers, Womack knows that ballad singing isn't an Olympian test of lung capacity. She hush-sings her way through Twenty Years and Two Husbands Ago and a delicate cover of Sonny Throckmorton's Waiting for the Sun to Shine, providing a much needed reminder that country, more than any other musical genre, still has the potential to offer instant intimacy...