Word: lungfuls
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...KOVIC was born on the Fourth of July, 1946. When he was twenty-one, a Vietnamese thirty-caliber slug tore through his right shoulder, blasted through his lung and smashed his spinal cord to pieces...
...BLACK LUNG DISEASE BROUHAHA...
...contraceptives regularly. Among the findings: Pill users did not have higher mortality rates than nonusers, if they did not smoke, and ran no greater risk of developing circulatory problems or cancer of the breast, ovaries or lining of the uterus. Though the researchers did note a slight increase in lung cancer, they said that it was probably caused by the women's heavy cigarette smoking. Similarly, they said, a significant increase in cervical cancer could be attributed not to the Pill, but to sexual habits, including sex at an early age and multiple partners...
Since Congress enacted legislation compensating coal miners disabled by black lung disease a decade ago, more than $9 billion in benefits have been paid to them or their survivors. Yet the federal program is still a matter of hot dispute. The United Mine Workers says that the Government is not generous enough; critics complain of a giveaway. Last week the controversy was fueled anew by a skeptical medical report...
...University of West Virginia Medical Center in the coal-mining center of Morgantown, Dr. W. Keith Morgan and his colleagues examined 200 miners who had claimed black lung benefits. Only eight qualified by existing compensation criteria; they had somewhat impaired breathing ability. Even so, none showed any indication of progressive massive fibrosis, a stiffening of lung tissue that doctors regard as the true sign of permanent disability...