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...long been popular in the running community, particularly among middle-aged males, a group that is at especially high coronary risk. The theory's most outspoken advocate is Dr. Thomas Bassler, an Inglewood, Calif., pathologist. Dr. William C. Roberts, chief of the pathology branch of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, and Colleague Bruce Waller have provided clinical evidence that Bassler is wrong. They studied the cases of five middle-aged men, 40 to 53, who died while running, including Maryland Congressman Goodloe Byron, a six-time Boston Marathon finisher...
...better, and what was once a brutal but necessary struggle is now a pleasant memory, a film history for the United Auto Workers to underwrite. Right--except that the mills in Lawrence are empty for a reason: everyone went down South, where there are no unions, only brown lung, bad money, and the "right to work." Sure--except the AFLCIO, the Teamsters and the rest have become more toadyish than ever, barely squawking when plants close down, doing nothing when presidents decide to put the lower class on welfare so the middle class won't have to suffer inflation. Lane...
...contemporary toxicologists were to conjure up a cause-and-effect grammar for lethal chemicals, asbestos would stand for lung cancer, benzene for leukemia, Kepone for sterility, vinyl chloride for cancer of the liver. The links between these chemicals and certain ailments are now clearly limned, in medical circles as well as in popular mythology. But the connections with diseases for other substances are merely suspicions and likely to remain so for a long time...
DIED. Willard Frank Libby, 71, nuclear pioneer whose "atomic clock" for dating ancient objects won him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1960; of a blood clot in the lung; in Los Angeles. A participant in the World War II Manhattan Project, Libby helped develop the gaseous-diffusion method of separating uranium isotopes. In the mid-'40s, he discovered that a radioactive isotope of carbon was a tiny but measurable part of all living matter and, decaying at a predictable rate, could be used to assign an age to dead organic archaeological and geological remains. An advocate of nuclear...
...Marcus Vinicius Cruz de Mello Moraes, 66, Brazilian poet, dramatist and lyricist who collaborated with Composer Antonio Carlos Jobim on the international hit The Girl from Ipanema and on the musical drama Orfeu da Conceição, which became the basis for the film Black Orpheus; of a lung ailment; in Rio de Janeiro. Moraes served in Brazil's diplomatic corps until the country's puritanical military bosses fired him for his "vagabond" ways, which included nine marriages. In his later years he was a fixture at Rio's all-night cafés and clubs...