Word: lunging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tens of thousands of Seventh-Day Adventists in Southern California suffer from most of the same diseases as their non-Adventist neighbors, including cancer. Yet on the average, the Adventist men live longer. Most conspicuously, they have only one-fourth as much lung disease as other Californians...
...doctors studied the five-year health records of 11,000 Adventist men over age 30. Among the 850 deaths, only nine were due to lung cancer, whereas 56 such deaths would have been predicted from statewide aver ages. Furthermore, none of the nine who had been killed by lung cancer had been a lifelong Adventist-all had joined the sect after years of smoking. Drs. Lemon and Walden have yet to find a single case of typical lung cancer in an Adventist who never smoked...
FANTASTIC VOYAGE. In this highly entertaining science-fiction adventure, five crewmates, traveling in a tiny, nuclear-powered submarine, chart a hazardous course through man's circulatory system. After several unexpected stopovers in the lung and inner ear, the microscopic crew reaches its disembarkation point: the human brain. THE WRONG BOX. Somewhere hidden among the plot machinations of this Victorian spoof is a wrong box, upon which most of the action hinges. The box is a coffin-unoccupied-although Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, John Mills and Ralph Richardson are more than anxious to find a suitable corpse to fill...
...addition to use in operations the new anesthetic technique will have important effects on other illnesses. Anesthetics could more easily be used on patients suffering from lung diseases. The new technique would enable these people whose diseased lungs are injured by inhaling ether to undergo pro-longed previously forbidden anesthesia...
Lack of understanding about trends in crime rates may be even more harmful. I think I am right that when we seek to interpret health trends we look separately at the figures on tuberculosis, lung cancer, and measles. We do not lump these together and add ulcers, colds and athlete's foot and then seek to make a gross judgment about how we are doing...