Word: lungfuls
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...heeded its teachings. Yet each time a believer resolutely pushed away his plate, there was the niggling doubt, or at least the hope, that perhaps the skeptics were right: there was only circumstantial evidence that abstaining from cholesterol-rich food actually protected the heart. No longer. The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute last week released the findings of a $150 million study tracking the incidence of heart disease in 3,806 men over a period of seven to ten years...
Robert Kirby, 57. In one way, the chairman of Capital Guardian is the most reckless of the independent money managers. For decades, Kirby has been a weekend race-car driver. In 1963, he crashed a Porsche Carrera in Dodger Stadium, breaking eight ribs and puncturing a lung. Though now silver-haired, he still occasionally pilots sports cars in competitions at Sebring...
...same time, masters began to shy away from their increased responsibilities. In the '60s, they had to deal both with student protests and with student pressure for help in getting into graduate schools, says Dean of the College John B. Fox Jr. "Masters began to buckle under the double lung," he recalls...
...which have faithfully chronicled operations on such notables as Henry Kissinger, Alexander Haig, Rock Hudson and Arthur Ashe, it has even achieved a certain social cachet. The bypass boom has led some doctors to fear that the operation is being overused. Now a study funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute has confirmed their doubts. The ambitious $24 million study, ten years in the making, found that about one in eight bypass patients would live just as long with drug treatment instead of surgery. "In the past we have tended to believe that the operation prolongs survival," says...
After treatment Thursday night and Friday morning, Cavallaro and his companions were released from the hospitals. Cavallaro had required treatment for a collapsed lung and received two stitches...