Word: lungfuls
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After 15 minutes of furious play at Maria Elena's lung-stretching...
...People wander around; daydream. They don't mince like Japanese, but amble as men in secure possession of the earth under their feet." He also was struck by the candor of those he interviewed. At Canton's Sun Yat-sen University, he talked with Professor Fu Chih-lung, a Minnesota Ph.D. in biology, who had given up theoretical research to develop a new breed of insects that would kill agricultural pests. "It's like the Nixon Doctrine," his guide remarked dryly. "Asians to fight Asians...
...bumper stickers and sell them to alumni. Some enterprises die aborning. Jerry White, 26, devised a plastic sheathing to protect telephone poles from woodpeckers but found it too expensive to produce. Other students are still gamely trying to develop a drown-proof infant bathtub, a self-testing kit for lung cancer and a transistorized gadget that would automatically squirt out air freshener every few minutes. But, as Bob Lyle, the 30-year-old acting dean, points out, even failure teaches students something about business...
...peril is rising. Since 1947, the male cancer rate has climbed from 280 per 100,000 to 304, while the death rate has risen by nearly 40%. Tumors of the prostate and colon account for part of the increase, but lung cancer is the biggest factor in the upsurge. The lung-cancer death rate among American men is three times greater than in 1947; next year the disease is expected to kill 56,000. Women are also suffering from lung cancer in growing numbers...
...Lorin Kerr, medical director of the United Mine Workers of America, will talk about the medical, social, and legal issues surrounding the black lung disease at 7:30 p.m. today in Amphitheatre C at the Harvard Medical School...